GERSTLE v. CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, INC.

Nos. 72-1292, 72-1293.

466 F.2d 1374 (1972)

Irmgard S. GERSTLE et al., Plaintiffs, Elizabeth M. Sansing and Marilee G. Krinitt, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, INC., a Nevada corporation, and Air Line Pilots Association, International, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

October 2, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh J. McClearn, Denver, Colo. (Van Cise, Freeman, Tooley & McClearn, Denver, Colo., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Bruce W. Sattler, Denver, Colo. (Gordon G. Greiner and Holland & Hart, Denver, Colo., of counsel, on the brief), for defendant-appellee Continental Airlines, Inc.

Cynthia E. Gitt, John de J. Pemberton, Jr., Acting Gen. Counsel, Julia P. Cooper, Chief, Appellate Section, and Charles L. Reischel, Atty., Washington, D. C., for U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Comm., as amicus curiae.

Before SETH, McWILLIAMS and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.


McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

The narrow issue here to be resolved is whether the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to allow two would-be intervenors to join as parties plaintiff in a pending Civil Rights action. We conclude that in so doing the trial court did not abuse its discretion and that its order must therefore be affirmed. To end this opinion at this point is tempting, but to do so would tell little to the parties and nothing to the casual reader...

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