Legal Opinion
Culbreath v. Dukakis
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 8, 1980No. Nos. 79-1502, 79-1503, 79-1505 and 79-1506PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
The issue in this case is whether the district court abused its discretion in ruling *17that intervention petitions 1 did not satisfy the timeliness requirement of Fed.R.Civ.P. 24. The petitions were filed by four state employee labor unions more than four years after initiation of a suit alleging racial discrimination in the hiring and promotion practices of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and within two months of the submission of a consent decree settling the suit. After reviewing prior decisions in this case, the consent decree and the decision below, we affirm the…
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