Legal Opinion
Michael Georgakis v. Illinois State University
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 16, 2013No. 13-1367PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, proceeding pro se, filed this suit against nine chemistry professors at Illinois State University (and the university itself, but as far as we can tell he seeks no relief against it), charging them with having defrauded the United States in violation of several federal statutes by obtaining federal grant money on the basis of research papers that they had plagiarized. The plaintiff does not allege that the defendants’ fraud harmed him, and so this is a qui tarn suit (though not captioned as such) — a suit in which a private person, generally hoping for a…
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