SCARDELLETTI v. DEBARR

Nos. 99-2619, 00-1411 and 00-1525.

265 F.3d 195 (2001)

Robert A. SCARDELLETTI; Frank Ferlin, Jr.; Joel Parker; Don Bujold, as Trustees of the Transportation Communications International Union Staff Retirement Plan, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. George Thomas DEBARR, Individually and as representatives of a class of all persons similarly situated; Anthony Santoro, Sr., Defendants-Appellees, and Donald A. Bobo; R.I. Kilroy; F.T. Lynch; Frank Mazur, Defendants, v. Robert J. Devlin; Retired Employees Protective Association, Movants-Appellants, and A. Meaders; James H. Groskopf; Thomas C. Robinson; Doyle W. Beat; Miriam E. Parrish; Robert A. Parrish; Desmond Fraser; James L. Bailey; Dorothy Deerwester; Thomas J. Hewson; Clay B. Wolfe; Kenneth B. Lane; Brian A. Jones; Charles O. Swasy, Parties in Interest. Robert A. Scardelletti; Frank Ferlin, Jr.; Joel Parker; Don Bujold, as Trustees of the Transportation Communications International Union Staff Retirement Plan, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. George Thomas Debarr, Individually and as representatives of a class of all persons similarly situated; Anthony Santoro, Sr., Defendants-Appellees, and Donald A. Bobo; R.I. Kilroy; F.T. Lynch; Frank Mazur, Defendants, v. Robert J. Devlin; Retired Employees Protective Association, Movants-Appellants, and A. Meaders; James H. Groskopf; Thomas C. Robinson; Doyle W. Beat; Miriam E. Parrish; Robert A. Parrish; Desmond Fraser; James L. Bailey; Dorothy Deerwester; Thomas J. Hewson; Clay B. Wolfe; Kenneth B. Lane; Brian A. Jones; Charles O. Swasy, Parties in Interest. Robert A. Scardelletti; Frank Ferlin, Jr.; Joel Parker; Don Bujold, as Trustees of the Transportation Communications International Union Staff Retirement Plan, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. George Thomas Debarr, Individually and as representatives of a class of all persons similarly situated; Anthony Santoro, Sr., Defendants-Appellees, and Donald A. Bobo; R.I. Kilroy; F.T. Lynch; Frank Mazur, Defendants, v. Robert J. Devlin; Retired Employees Protective Association, Movants-Appellants, and A. Meaders; James H. Groskopf; Thomas C. Robinson; Doyle W. Beat; Miriam E. Parrish; Robert A. Parrish; Desmond Fraser; James L. Bailey; Dorothy Deerwester; Thomas J. Hewson; Clay B. Wolfe; Kenneth B. Lane; Brian A. Jones; Charles O. Swasy, Parties in Interest.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 27, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Arthur McKee Wisehart, Wisehart & Koch, New York, NY, for Appellants. William Francis Hanrahan, Groom Law Group, Chartered, Barbara J. Kraft, Beins, Axelrod & Kraft, P.C., Washington, DC; Kenneth M. Johnson, Tuggle, Duggins & Meschan, P.A., Greensboro, NC, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Kahn, Smith & Collins, P.A., Baltimore, MD, for Appellants. Leonie Hassel, Groom Law Group, Chartered, Washington, DC, for Appellees Scardelletti, et al.

Before WILLIAMS and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and JOSEPH F. ANDERSON, Chief United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.


Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge WILLIAMS wrote the majority opinion in which Chief Judge JOSEPH F. ANDERSON joined. Judge MICHAEL wrote an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.

OPINION

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Robert Devlin unsuccessfully sought to intervene to challenge a class action settlement in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Under the...

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