Legal Opinion
Flynn v. Hubbard
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 7, 1986No. Nos. 85-1397, 85-1398PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
The question in this case is whether intervention under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a)(2) or 24(b)(2) was properly denied where the sole named defendant has, as yet, failed to appear. The plaintiff-appellee, Michael J. Flynn, is a Massachusetts attorney who has sued various Churches of Scientology and individual Scientologists over a number of years. L. Ron Hubbard, the defendant, is the founder of Scientology. On September 7, 1983, Flynn brought the complaint in this case naming Hubbard as the sole defendant and alleging that Hubbard had caused a wide range of…
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