Gabriel v. Standard Fruit & Steamship Co.

This is an appeal from an order denying intervention to 113 applicants who sought to participate in a class action against their employer, Standard Fruit and Steamship Company, for breach of a collective bargaining contract.

Appellants seek to intervene on the ground that they are entitled to “intervention of right” under Rule 24(a) (2) of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. However, in the absence of an abuse of discretion by the district judge, federal appellate courts have no jurisdiction to review the denial of intervention unless the prospective intervenors establish, among other things,1…