Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi v. State ex rel. Barbour

¶ 93. Because today the majority disregards our Rules of Civil Procedure and established case law regarding timely intervention, I must respectfully dissent.

¶94. The intervenors seek to participate in a case more than four years after it was finalized. Intervention in Mississippi may be achieved pursuant to our M.R.C.P. 24, which allows intervention by right and permissive intervention; in both instances the motion shall be made “[u]pon timely application_” We have previously determined that “timeliness has no fixed meaning,” and so we have considered four factors:(1) the length of time…