FRANCIS v. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF UNITED STATES

No. 72-1537.

481 F.2d 192 (1973)

Robert FRANCIS et al., Appellees, v. The CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF the UNITED STATES, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey S. Goldman, Chicago, Ill. (Milton A. Smith, Gen. Counsel, O. F. Wenzler, Labor Relations Counsel, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Washington, D. C., Gerard C. Smetana, Lawrence M. Cohen, Lederer, Fox & Grove, Chicago, Ill., William A. Grimes, Ober, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Md., Alan Raywid and Cole, Zylstra & Raywid, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

C. Christopher Brown, Baltimore, Md., for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

The United States Chamber of Commerce appeals to this court after being denied leave to permissively intervene in litigation before a three-judge district court in Francis v. Davidson, 340 F.Supp. 351 (D.Md.1972), summarily affirmed without opinion, 409 U.S. 904, 93 S.Ct. 223, 34 L.Ed.2d 168 (1972). The Chamber argues that it should have been allowed to intervene as of right under F.R.C.P. 24(a), or, alternatively...

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