Legal Opinion
New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. United Gas Pipe Line Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 21, 1984No. 82-3194PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:
This diversity case brings to our en banc consideration questions pertaining to the entitlement of third parties to intervene as plaintiffs in a contract action brought by a local electric utility against its major fuel supplier. The district court denied all requested intervention. The decision of the panel, as modified on rehearing, though declining to disturb both the denial of intervention to the electricity consumers and the determination that officials of the city which franchised the electric utility were *455not entitled to intervene as of right, held that the…
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