Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “at some fundamental level, the proposed intervenor must have a stake in the litigation”
• holding similar and stating “that the prospective intervenor waited until settlement was imminent strongly suggests that [the prospective intervenor] was not interested in intervening in the litigation but in blocking a settlement between the parties—or at a minimum, this settlement.”
• characterizing City of Chicago as a case \where the white female police officers who wanted to intervene could not have anticipated that the new procedures would discriminate against them\
• affirming district court’s finding that original parties “would be prejudiced by” late motion to intervene, where “the parties had spent substantial time (nearly six months
• waiting until settlement was imminent to file motion to intervene “strongly suggests” tactical attempt to thwart the settlement rather than to participate in the litigation
• characterizing City of Chicago as a case “where the white female police officers who wanted to intervene could not have anticipated that the new procedures would discrim- inate against them”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).