United States v. City of Oakland, California, and Nuclear Free Oakland, Inc. Steven P. Bloom, Intervenors-Appellants

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

Appellants seek to appeal the merits of a judgment entered in an action to which appellants never became parties. The dis-positive issue is whether we have jurisdiction to consider such an appeal.

On November 8, 1988, voters in the City of Oakland, California, adopted by initiative the Oakland Nuclear Free Zone Act, Ordinance No. 11062. The Ordinance contained a variety of prohibitions effective upon the city and its citizens with respect to the manufacture, transport, and storage of nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. The case underlying this appeal was brought by…