City Of Stilwell, Oklahoma v. Ozarks Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation

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• holding a purported intervener’s contingent interest in pending litigation is too attenuated and does not satisfy the “direct and substantial” requirement of Rule 24(a)(2) (citation omitted); Alameda Water & Sanitation Dist. v. Browner, 9 F.3d 88, 90 (10th Cir. 1993
• denying motion to intervene where the intervenor’s “ultimate motivation in thfe] suit” differed from the original party’s, but the objective of both parties was identical
• “While this standard is, aptly, ‘permissive,’ it is also ‘a matter within the district court’s discretion …’” (quoting Kiamichi R.R. Co. v. Nat’l Mediation Bd., 986 F.2d 1341, 1345 (10th Cir. 1993)); Arney v. Finney, 967 F.2d 418, 421 (10th Cir. 1992

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