Whether a state government is bound by a final federal judgment in a qui tam action when it declines to intervene

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the federal government or a state government, as the real party in interest in a qui tam action brought in its name and litigated to judgment with its full knowledge, is bound by a final judgment on the merits when that government has declined to intervene. 2. Whether a state court may establish a novel “public policy” exception to the res judicata effect of a concededly final federal judgment when that exception runs to the exclusive benefit of a single party: the government. (1)