Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. National Children's Center, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “despite the lack of a clear fit with the literal terms of Rule 24(b
• stating a would-be intervenor needed “an independent ground for subject matter jurisdiction”
• “ ‘no particularly strong nexus of fact or law need exist between the two suits’ when a nonparty seeks to intervene for the sole purpose of gaining access to documents subject to a confidentiality order.”
• “Permissive intervention ... has always required an independent basis for jurisdiction.”
• the rule's \apparent goal [is] disposing of related controversies together\
• “On its 6 The rule also authorizes permissive intervention in other circumstances not relevant here. See F ED . R. C IV . P. 24(b)(1)(A) (authorizing intervention where the intervenor “is given a conditional right to intervene by a federal statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).