VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER v. ROSENFELT

No. 20-1748.

988 F.3d 556 (2021)

VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER; Equal Rights Advocates; Legal Voice; Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation; Jane Doe, an individual by and through her mother and next friend Melissa White; Anne Doe; Sobia Doe; Susan Doe; Jill Doe; Nancy Doe; Lisa Doe, Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Phil ROSENFELT, in his official capacity as Acting Secretary of Education, Suzanne Goldberg, in her official capacity as Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, United States Department of Education, Defendants, Appellees. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Independent Women's Law Center, Speech First, Inc., Putative Intervenors, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 18, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexa R. Baltes , with whom Charles J. Cooper , Brian W. Barnes , Washington, DC, Cameron T. Norris , Arlington, VA, Tiffany H. Bates , Patrick Strawbridge , Arlington, VA, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, and Consovoy McCarthy PLLC were on brief, for appellants.

Michael F. Qian , with whom Natalie A. Fleming Nolen , David A. Newman , James R. Sigel , Emily Martin , Neena Chaudhry , Sunu Chandy , Shiwali G. Patel , Elizabeth Tang , Diane L. Rosenfeld , and Morrison & Foerster LLP were on brief, for appellees.

Before Lynch and Selya, Circuit Judges, and Laplante, District Judge.


The question in this interlocutory appeal is whether the district court abused its discretion in denying both intervention as of right and permissive intervention to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Independent Women's Law Center, and Speech First, Inc. (collectively,

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