Legal Opinion
Smith v. Marsh
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 1, 1999No. 98-35732PublishedCited by 682 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether a motion to intervene as of right in a pending federal affirmative action lawsuit was properly denied as untimely.
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The case underlying the motion to intervene challenges the use of affirmative action in admissions at the University of Washington Law School. Katuria Smith, Angela Rock, and Michael Pyle (“Applicants”) are unsuccessful white applicants who sued the Law School, former dean Wallace D. Loh, and certain other current and former Law School officials (collectively, “the Law School”), seeking to challenge its admission policies. Tyson…
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