EMPIRE BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD v. JANET GREESON'S

No. 94-55681.

62 F.3d 1217 (1995)

EMPIRE BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut, Inc., et al., Plaintiff, v. JANET GREESON'S A PLACE FOR US, INC.; Bellflower Doctors Hospital; Los Angeles Doctors Corporation; Janet Greeson; Barry Smolev; Suncrest Hospital of Orange; Hollywood Community Hospital at Van Nuys; Princeton Hospital, Defendants-Appellees. Aetna Life Insurance Company, Applicant in intervention-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin Wexler and Robert D. Helfand, Kornstein, Veisz & Wexler, New York City, for applicant in intervention-appellant.

James M. Harris, Sidley & Austin, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee Hollywood Community Hosp. of Van Nuys.

Derek S. Goulding, Acker, Kowalick & Whipple, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees Janet Greeson's A Place for Us.

James P. Herzog and David R. Fisher, Herzog, Fisher, Flame & Grayson, Beverly Hills, CA, for defendants-appellees.

Before: FLETCHER, WIGGINS, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.


WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:

Aetna Life Insurance Co. ("Aetna") appeals a district court's denial of its motion to intervene in an earlier, settled civil law suit. Aetna requested that the district court modify protective orders it had previously issued, which sealed the documents produced during the lengthy discovery in the earlier action. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

In August 1992, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, et al. ("Blue Cross"), filed a federal...

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