RICHARDSON v. FLORES

No. 20-50774.

979 F.3d 1102 (2020)

Doctor George RICHARDSON; Rosalie Weisfeld; Move Texas Civic Fund; League of Women Voters of Texas; Austin Justice Coalition; Coalition of Texas With Disabilities, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Federico FLORES, Jr.; Maria Guerrero; Vicente Guerrero, Movants-Appellants, v. Texas Secretary of State, Ruth R. Hughs, Defendant-Appellant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed November 12, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerad Wayne Najvar, Esq. , Austin M.B. Whatley , Najvar Law Firm, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, for Movants-Appellants.

Hani Mirza , Zachary Dolling , Texas Civil Rights Project, Audra White , Willkie Farr & Gallagher, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Ryan Vincent Cox , Senior Attorney, Mimi Murray Digby Marziani , Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, TX, Samuel Maclain Kalar , Richard Mancino , JoAnna Barbara Suriani , Willkie Farr & Gallagher, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Jerad Wayne Najvar, Esq. , Najvar Law Firm, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, Matthew Hamilton Frederick , Deputy Solicitor General, Beth Ellen Klusmann, Esq. , Kyle Douglas Hawkins , Office of the Attorney General, Office of the Solicitor General, Anne Marie Mackin , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, General Litigation Division, Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Higginbotham, Smith, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.


Movants, the plaintiffs in a separate but similar case, were denied intervention in the district court. They take the unusual step of moving to intervene in an ongoing appeal. Because intervention on appeal is reserved for exceptional cases, and movants' reasons for intervening do not come close to that high threshold...

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