National Wildlife Federation, Inc. v. Glisson

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• stating that the intervenor must accept the record and pleadings as they exist in the litigation and the intervenor may not raise any new issues
• intervention upheld where trial set approximately 6 months later and subsequently rescheduled; movants “assure[d] the court that their desire to intervene would not delay or disrupt the proceedings.”
• “‘Anyone claiming an interest in pending litigation may at any time be permitted to assert his right by intervention . . . ’” (quoting Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.230)
• “An intervenor must accept the record and pleadings as he finds them and cannot raise new issues, although he may argue the issues as they apply to him as a party.”
• motion to intervene not untimely where discovery still underway and pleadings still open
• “Intervention should be liberally allowed.”

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