Legal Opinion
R & G Mortgage Corp. v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 1, 2009No. 08-2542PublishedCited by 115 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal directly challenges the denial of an attempt at post-settlement intervention and indirectly challenges the propriety of a sealing order. 1 The stage is easily set. After the settlement of a sealed lawsuit to which it was not a party, Doral Bank (Doral) sought to intervene. The district court denied the motion as untimely and refused to conduct a hearing anent the propriety of the sealing order. The court later declined to reconsider its order.
Doral now appeals, asseverating that it should have been permitted (i) to intervene as of right or (ii) to intervene…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- United States v. Ilario M.A. ZanninoCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990
- New Comm Wireless Services, Inc. v. SprintCom, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2002
- United States v. TaylorCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1995
- Public Citizen v. Liggett Group, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1988
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