LELSZ v. KAVANAGH

No. 82-2164.

710 F.2d 1040 (1983)

John LELSZ, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. John T. KAVANAGH, et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. THE PARENT ASSOCIATION FOR the RETARDED OF TEXAS, et al., Movants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B.F. Campbell, Jr., Dallas, Tex., H. Bartow Farr, II, Joel I. Klein, Washington, D.C., for movants-appellants.

Brenda J. Garrett, Dallas, Tex., David Ferleger, Philadelphia, Pa., Vicki L. Johnson, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Martha Allan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, REAVLEY and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

The Parent Association for the Retarded of Texas and two residents of Texas institutions for the mentally retarded appeal from the denial of their motion to intervene of right in a class action brought by other residents of those institutions against state officials. Because we find that the district court, 98 F.R.D. 11, did not abuse its discretion in holding the proposed intervention...

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