Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Milam v. University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 3, 1992No. 91-2194PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HALL, Circuit Judge:
The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas appeals the district court’s denial of its motion to dismiss, based on Eleventh Amendment immunity, a qui tam False Claims Act suit. We must decide whether the inapplicability of the Eleventh Amendment to suits brought by the United States extends to actions brought on the United States’ behalf by qui tam relators. Concluding that it does, we affirm.
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Relator Kathryn Milam is a post-doctoral cancer researcher. In' the mid-1980s, she was employed at the University of California’s Brain Tumor Research Center, a…
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