Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Peabody Western Coal Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding absent party was required under Rule 19(a) because in the event defendant was 4 found liable, it “w[ould] not be able to seek indemnification from the Secretary”
• finding a third party indispensable when the third party was largely responsible for the named defendant’s contract breach, because without the third party “[the defendant] will not be able to seek indemnification from the [third party].”
• “Although [plaintiff] lacked statutory authority to state a cause of action against the [party to be joined], joinder . . . for the purposes of res judicata was still possible.”
• “A public entity has 13 an [legally protected] interest in a lawsuit that could result in the invalidation or modification of 14 one of its ordinances, rules, regulations, or practices.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).