United States Second Circuit

In plaintiff-police officers' appeal from a denial of their motion to intervene in a Title VII action filed by African-American officers, the order is reversed where intervenors had an interest in their employers' employment practices and, therefore, a settlement agreement that they asserted infringed their statutory and constitutional rights, and hence they asserted an interest in their promotion that was sufficient for intervention.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/14/2009
• Decided 04/27/2010
• Published 04/27/2010

Judges

• BARRINGTON D. PARKER, Circuit Judge:, Before CABRANES, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and AMON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karen Lee Torre, Law Offices of Norman A. Pattis, LLC, New Haven, CT, for Movants-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sean K. McElligott, Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., Bridgeport, CT, Thomas W. Bucci, Willinger, Willinger & Bucci P.C., Bridgeport, CT, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Betsy A. Edwards, Office of the City Attorney, Bridgeport, CT, for Defendants-Appellees.