Hodgson v. District No. 5, United Mine Workers of America

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

McCUNE, District Judge.

We now consider the motion of Louis Antal and Nick DeVince individually and on behalf of the Miners for Democracy for leave to intervene in these proceedings, in which the Secretary of Labor seeks to set aside the election of district officers in District 5 of the UMW, under Rule 24(a) or under Rule 24(b). Their intervention is opposed by the defendant and is opposed by the plaintiff for certain purposes and is not opposed by the plaintiff for other purposes.

The Supreme Court in Trbovich v. Mine Workers, 404 U.S. 528, 92 S.Ct. 630, 30 L.Ed.2d 686…