Legal Opinion
Public Citizen v. Liggett Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 28, 1988No. 88-1195PublishedCited by 243 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
Liggett Group, Inc., and Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. (collectively “Liggett”) appeal an order of the district court modifying an earlier protective order covering discovery materials produced by Liggett. Request for the modification came from a group of public health organizations represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group (“Public Citizen”). 1 Liggett contends that Public Citizen lacked standing to request modification, both because it failed to obtain status as an intervening party under Rule 24 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and because it had no…
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