Carol Rae Cooper Foulds v. Texas Tech University
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
This appeal speaks of a qui tam action brought by Carol Rae Cooper Foulds, on behalf of the United States, against Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center for violations of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq. (West Supp.1998). We must initially decide a jurisdictional issue — whether under the Eleventh Amendment private citizens acting as qui tam plaintiffs can institute such suits against the sovereign states. Because we hold that the Eleventh Amendment bars this suit, we lack the constitutional authority to decide the…
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