Update: Comments from David B. Helms, shareholder and managing partner of the St. Louis, Mo. office of German May P.C., were added to the story.The Illinois False Claims Act allows litigants to bring fraud cases against “any person” on behalf of the “state.”But what happens when the defendant “person” in such a case is also part of the “state”?An appeals court answered that question this week, ruling a downstate community college was not immune from such suits just because it …