Zoltan Barati v. State of Florida, Motorola, Inc.

■ THOMAS, J.

In this qui tam proceeding filed under the Florida False Claims Act (FCA), we are presented with a question of first impression, 1 to wit: Does the Attorney General possess the requisite legal authority to dismiss a pending qui tam action notwithstanding her previous decision to decline to intervene in the action? The Attorney General asserts that a qui tam action is strictly statutory in nature, the State is the real party in interest, and the State possesses the substantive right to dismiss this statutory cause of action at any time during the litigation. To hold otherwise, the…