CULBREATH v. DUKAKIS

Nos. 79-1502, 79-1503, 79-1505 and 79-1506.

630 F.2d 15 (1980)

Barbara CULBREATH et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael DUKAKIS et al., Defendants-Appellees, Locals 285 and 509, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, Appellants. Barbara CULBREATH et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael DUKAKIS et al., Defendants-Appellees, Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers and Scientists, Appellant. Barbara CULBREATH et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael DUKAKIS et al., Defendants-Appellees, Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council, Appellant. Barbara CULBREATH et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael DUKAKIS et al., Defendants-Appellees, National Association of Government Employees, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan P. Hiatt, Boston, Mass., with whom Angoff, Goldman, Manning, Pyle & Wanger, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellants, Locals 285 and 509, Service Employees Intern. Union, AFL-CIO.

Nathan S. Paven, Boston, Mass., with whom Flamm, Kaplan, Paven & Feinberg, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellant, Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers and Scientists.

Mark J. Dalton, Dover, Mass., with whom Neil F. Colleran, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellants, National Ass'n of Government Employees and Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council.

Alan K. Posner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Betty E. Waxman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendants-appellees, Michael Dukakis et al.

James H. Wexler, Boston, Mass., with whom Ruth Diaz, Winthrop, Mass., and Robert A. James, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs-appellees, Barbara Culbreath, et al.

Before ALDRICH and BOWNES, Circuit Judges, and PETTINE, District Judge.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

The issue in this case is whether the district court abused its discretion in ruling that intervention petitions1 did not satisfy the timeliness requirement of Fed.R.Civ.P. 24. The petitions were filed by four state employee labor unions more than four years after initiation of a suit alleging racial discrimination in the hiring and...

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