Calvin-Humphrey v. District of Columbia

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• explaining that application of Rule 24(a)(2) should “prevent[] litigation from becoming unmanageably complex”
• noting that in suit where taxpayer sought to intervene to defend position abandoned by the District government, \the focus ... should not be on a rigid definition of the interest required ... but on the adequacy of representation afforded by municipal authorities\
• noting that in suit where taxpayer sought to intervene to defend position abandoned by the District government, “the focus . . . should not be on a rigid definition of the interest required . . . but on the adequacy of representation afforded by municipal authorities”
• dictum, citing Roberts, supra note 29, and Massachusetts v. Mellon, supra note 27

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