COOK v. POWELL BUICK, INC.

No. 98-30146.

155 F.3d 758 (1998)

Billy COOK; Barry Kuperman, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Alfred Gorham; Eva Faye Agnelly; Michael J. Thompson; Catherine Thompson, Intervenors-Appellees, v. POWELL BUICK, INC.; Hub City Ford, Inc.; Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association, William Watson, Jr., doing business as Bill Watson Ford, Inc., doing business as Bill Watson Nissan, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees, Spinato Chrysler Plymouth, Inc.; Marshall Brothers Lincoln Mercury Inc.; Lamarque Ford Inc., Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees, v. MOFFITT VOLKSWAGEN, Appellee, Harry T. Cole, III; Medical Heritage, Inc., Linda Meany; Pressley A. Kibbe; Scott Simmons; Elmo J. Pitre, III; Daniel J. Daigle; Leo M. Prange, Jr., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 5, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Patrick Hennessy, Peters, Ward, Bright & Hennessy, Shreveport, LA, Robert D. Hoffman, Jr., Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, LA, for Cook, Kuperman, Gorham, Agnelly and Michael J. and Catherine Thompson.

Keith M. Welch, Simon, Fitzgerald, Cooke, Reed & Welch, Shreveport, LA, for Cook and Kuperman.

Bernard Haynie Ticer, Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, LA, for Gorham, Agnelly and Michael J. and Catherine Thompson.

David Edmund Kavanagh, Weeks, Kavanagh & Rendeiro, New Orleans, LA, for Gorham and Agnelly.

Paul Edward Mayeaux, Usry & Weeks, Metairie, LA, George Febiger Riess, Polack, Rosenberg, Endom & Riess, New Orleans, LA, for Michael J. and Catherine Thompson.

Claude F. Reynaud, Jr., Jeanne C. Comeaux, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, LA, for Louisiana Auto. Dealers Ass'n, Powell Buick, Inc., Spinato Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., Hub City Ford, Inc., Marshall Bros. Lincoln Mercury, Inc., Lemarque Ford, Inc. and Moffitt Volkswagen.

Lanny R. Zatzkis, Zatzkis & Associates, New Orleans, LA, for William Watson, Jr.

Stephen Charles Resor, Sullivan, Stolier & Resor, Michael Maurice Meunier, Jack Mark Stolier, Sullivan, Stolier & Daigle, Richard William Martinez, Tranchina & Martinez, New Orleans, LA, for Cole, Medical Heritage, Inc., Meany, Kibbe, Simmons, Pitre, Daigle and Prange.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and WIENER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


POLITZ, Chief Judge:

Harry T. Cole, III, Medical Heritage, Inc., Linda Meany, Pressley A. Kibbe, Scott Simmons, Elmo J. Pitre, III, Daniel J. Daigle, and Leo M. Prange, Jr. moved to intervene in this class action. The district court denied their motion. The proposed intervenors now appeal that denial and the final judgment approving a negotiated settlement agreement. For the reasons assigned, we dismiss the appeal as to the settlement agreement and affirm as to the...

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