LEON W. BRADLEY, JR., A MINOR BY LEON W. BRADLEY, SR., HIS FATHER AND NEXT FRIEND, ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES,
v.
BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF PINELLAS COUNTY, ET AL., DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES, GRACE TILKA ET AL. AND RICHARD J. DEEB ET AL., INTERVENORS-APPELLANTS

5th Cir. | 1971-12-30
No. 71-2689
453 F.2d 408 Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1971)

AI-generated. These summaries, headnotes, and key points are machine-generated and may contain errors or omissions. Always verify against the full opinion text below. Not legal advice.


Holding

The court held that the denial of intervention was a final decision and affirmed the district court's denial of both intervention as a matter of right and permissive intervention.


Facts & Procedural History

Grace Tilka sought to intervene in a desegregation suit as an individual and class representative. The district court denied her motion for leave to i…

The full statement of facts, procedural history, and disposition for this case are member content.

Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence

© FLexlaw, Inc. — AI-generated enrichments are proprietary. All rights reserved.


Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM:

PER CURIAM:

Grace Tilka appeals from the order of the district court denying her motion for reconsideration of the court’s order denying her leave to intervene in this suit as an individual and as a representative of a class of defendant-intervenors. We affirm.

The order denying reconsideration was filed the same day as the court's Final Order approving and adopting the School Board’s Plan of Desegregation. Tilka thereafter timely filed her notice of appeal. Although a denial of intervention is not generally an appealable order with 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we find that in the circumstances of this case, where the order denying intervention is filed contemporaneously with the court’s Final Order, the denial of intervention constitutes a “Final Decision” within § 1291.1

The court determined that it would be inappropriate to grant intervention. Under the facts presented and in view of the history of this litigation this court is of the opinion that Tilka was not entitled to intervene as a matter of right and that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying permissive intervention. The order is affirmed.

. See United States v. Wood, 295 F. 2d 772, 778 (5th Cir. 1961); Stoudenmire v. Braxton, 299 F. 2d 846 (5th Cir. 1962); Wright, Law of Federal Courts, § 75 p. 332 (2d ed. 1970); 9 Moore, Federal Practice, ¶ 110.13 (1970).


Cases With Similar Vibessemantic neighbors from the corpus


Citator

Authorities Cited

Full citator, related cases, and AI research tools

Open in FLexlaw