Harold Dawavendewa, a Single Man v. Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, an Arizona Corporation, the Navajo Nation

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• noting that the “litigation threaten[ed] to impair the [would-be intervenor’s] contractual interests, and thus, its fundamental economic relationship with [an existing party]”
• finding that a 23 judgement rendered in [the state’s] absence would impair its “sovereign capacity to negotiate 24 contracts” and undermine the state’s ability to govern effectively
• holding 19 that an absent party was necessary where the “instant litigation threatens to impair [its] contractual 20 interests, and thus, its fundamental economic relationship with” the present party
• contracting party is necessary to litigation which “threatened to impair [party’s] contractual interests, and thus, its fundamental economic relationship with [another contracting party]”
• referring to the “fundamental principle” that parties who may be affected by a contract action must be joined to it
• A decision rendered in the Nation’s absence would “prejudice the Nation’s sovereign interests in negotiating contractual obligations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).