In Re Lease Oil Antitrust Litigation

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• suggesting moving to intervene is a “much more certain way of proceeding” than relying on the non-party standing balancing test
• explaining non-parties “are generally not 6 Case: 23-20256 Document: 114-1 Page: 7 Date Filed: 11/03/2025 No. 23-20256 permitted to appeal a ruling in which they did not participate”
• “Non-parties are generally not permitted to appeal a ruling in which they did not participate.”
• the State of Texas had a right to intervene to contest the distribution of unclaimed funds from a class action settlement because Texas had a state-created property right in the interest accrued on the funds that were the subject of the litigation.
• “Texas also might have pursued its interest by suing the settlement administrator in state court . . . . If Texas won such a suit, however, . . . [t]he settlement administrator would be presented with conflicting federal and state orders regarding the same property.”

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