Legal Opinion
Research Triangle Institute v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 29, 1997No. 97-1282PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge RUSSELL wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge WILLIAMS joined.
OPINION
DONALD S. RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents a single question of law: whether the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) can be sued in contract in federal court. The district court found that the doctrine of sovereign immunity shielded the Board from contract suits in federal court and dismissed this case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Because we can find neither an express waiver of sovereign immunity in the…
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