FEDERAL SAV. & LOAN INS. CORP. v. FALLS CHASE SP. TAXING DIST.

No. 91-3503.

983 F.2d 211 (1993)

FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE CORPORATION, as Receiver for Sunrise Savings and Loan Association, a Federal Savings and Loan Association, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FALLS CHASE SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICT, et al., Defendants, George Suess, Clarence E. Stewart, Maxine L. Terrell, Pat Whittaker, Mary Ann Gast, Defendants/Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 12, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Grady and Michael W. Pettit, Naples, FL, for appellants.

F. Perry Odom; Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom & Ervin; Mahoeny, Adams & Criser, Don Lester, Jacksonville, FL; Jeffrey Dikman, Tax Section, FL AG, Tallahassee, FL; Benjamin K. Phipps, Fine, Jacobson, Schwartz, Nash, Block & England; and Herbert W.A. Thiele, County Atty., Leon County Atty's Office, Tallahassee, FL, for appellee.

Before HATCHETT, Circuit Judge, and HENDERSON and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judges.


HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

The appellants, proposed intervenors, appeal the district court's denial of their motion to intervene in this litigation as a matter of right, pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 24(a). Because we find that the intervenors' interests may not be adequately protected through the efforts of the existing parties, we reverse the district court.

I. BACKGROUND

In the mid-70s, Leon County, Florida, created a special taxing...

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