Romasanta v. United Airlines, Inc.

The Romasanta suit out of which the present issue arose required five years for a resolution to be reached. When that suit reached a critical point insofar as petitioner’s interests were concerned more than three years ago, it in my opinion was incumbent upon her then to take immediate affirmative steps to protect her interests if she wanted to take advantage of this lawsuit as a forum for her claims.

In my opinion Judge Perry clearly acted properly when he denied the motion to intervene as untimely:

THE COURT: Well, in my judgment, gentlemen, this is five years now this has been in litigation,…