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U.S. v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CAL.

Nos. 01-55182, 01-55453.

288 F.3d 391 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA; Board Of Police Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles; City of Los Angeles Police Department, Defendants-Appellees, Los Angeles Police Protective League, Proposed Intervener-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Michael Garcia; Ernesto Luevano; Duc Pham; Jesus Nieto; Salvador Salas; Robert Hernandez; Carlos Gonzalez; David Askew; Timothy Campbell; Alberto Lovato; Tonye Allen; Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr.; Southern Christian Leadership Conference Of Los Angeles; Acluof Southern California; Homeboy Industries; Asian Pacific American Legal Center; Radio Sin Fronteras, Proposed Interveners-Appellants, v. City of Los Angeles, California; Board of Police Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles; City of Los Angeles Police Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 22, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory G. Petersen and Andrea F. Weiss, Petersen Law Firm, a Law Corporation, Costa Mesa, CA; Mark D. Rosenbaum and Catherine E. Lhamon, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California Law School, Los Angeles, CA, for the proposed-interveners-appellants.

Sarah E. Harrington, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellee and Patricia L. Glaser and R. Paul Katrinak, Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before BROWNING, THOMAS and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, various third parties contend that the district court erred by denying their motions for intervention. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

I

In the underlying action, the United States alleged that the City of Los Angeles ("the City"), the Board of Police Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Police Department ("LAPD") (collectively, the "City defendants") engaged...

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