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SMITH v. MARSH

No. 98-35732.

194 F.3d 1045 (1999)

Katuria E. SMITH; Angela Rock; Michael Pyle, for themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and University of Washington, Law School; Wallace D. Loh; Sandra Madrid; Richard Kummert; Michael Townsend; Roland Hjorth, Defendants-Appellees, and Robert Aronson; John Junker; Jacqueline McMurtrie; Eric Schnapper; Janet Stearns, Defendants, v. Tyson MARSH; Robin Wilt; Adriana Maestas; Bridget Lokelani Slavens; Buffy Jo Christina Wicks; Troy A. Hutson; Sonia M. Rodriguez; Elaine B. Gin; Andrew Langham; Elizabeth M. Adamitis; Peter Michael MacDonald; Tracey J. March; Alice M. Ostdiek, Amici Curiae-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 1, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Rosenbaum (argued), Daniel P. Tokaji, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Steven Shapiro, ACLU Foundation, New York, New York; Lucy Lee Helm, W. Ward Morrison, Jr., Graham & James, LLP/Riddell Williams, P.S., Seattle, Washington (on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington), for the proposed intervenors-appellants.

Michael E. Rosman (argued), Hans F. Bader, Center for Individual Rights, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: CANBY, BRUNETTI, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether a motion to intervene as of right in a pending federal affirmative action lawsuit was properly denied as untimely.

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The case underlying the motion to intervene challenges the use of affirmative action in admissions at the University of Washington Law School. Katuria Smith, Angela Rock, and Michael Pyle ("Applicants") are unsuccessful white applicants who sued the Law School, former dean Wallace...

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