HOOTS v. COM. OF PA.

No. 81-2732.

672 F.2d 1133 (1982)

Dorothy HOOTS, et al., Appellees, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, et al., Save Our Schools, an unincorporated association, by its President Linda Lafferty, Vice President Mary Lou Weisner, and Robert Fuller, a member thereof, A. S. DePaul, an individual, Shelia Mack, an individual, and John T. Daugherty, an individual, proposed intervenors, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Liebman, New York City, Thomas J. Henderson, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellees Dorothy Hoots, et al.

Linda R. Blumkin, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York City, Anton W. Bigman, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee General Braddock Area School Dist.

Arthur J. Murphy, Jr., Arthur J. Murphy, Jr. & Associates, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellants Save Our Schools et al.

Before GIBBONS, HUNTER and GARTH, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Save Our Schools, an unincorporated association, and certain individual taxpayers (collectively SOS), appeal from a denial of their motion to intervene as defendants in an action seeking injunctive relief against intentional racial segregation in drawing school district boundaries. We affirm.

The lawsuit in which SOS seeks to intervene is a 10 year old action brought by Dorothy Hoots, and others, against...

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