Cotter v. Massachusetts Ass'n of Minority Law Enforcement Officers

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• acknowledging that there may be “unusual cases” where an intervenor could satisfy the interest requirement of Rule 24(a)(2) without having a stake in the controversy needed to satisfy Article III
• “[E]nough likelihood of conflict or divergence of interest exists to defeat any claim that ‘the applicant’s interest is adequately represented by existing parties’ * * * .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).