Atlantis Development Corporation, Ltd. v. United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:
This case involves a little bit of nearly everything — a little bit of oceanography, a little bit of marine biology, a little bit of the tidelands oil controversy, a little bit of international law, a little bit of latter day Marco Polo exploration. But these do not command our resolution since the little bits are here controlled by the less exciting bigger, if not big, problem of intervention. The District Court declined to permit mandatory intervention as a matter of right or to allow intervention as permissive. (As is so often true, a ruling made to avoid…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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