United States Eleventh Circuit

The state of Florida may intervene as of right, in a suit seeking to compel the increase of the city of Atlanta's water supply, where disposition of the action may impair or impede its ability to protect its interest in the relevant waters.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/21/2002
• Published 08/21/2002

Judges

• BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and HIGHSMITH , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James H. Curry, Autry, Horton & Cole, LLP, Tucker, GA, Donald G. Blankcnau, Fennemore Craig, PC, Lincoln, NE, Edward J. McGrath, J. Cathy Fogel, David A. Fitzgerald, Kellie A. Donnelly, Clinton A. Vince, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, Sullivan & Worcester, LLP, Washington, DC, Amy Weil, Atlanta, GA, for Proposed Intervenors-Appellants., Teri L. Donaldson, Tallahassee, FL, for State of Florida.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce Perrin Brown, McKenna, Long & Aldridge, LLP, Stephen E. O'Day, Smith, Gambrell & Russsell, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.