United States Fourth Circuit

A motion to intervene in a district court class action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24 to challenge the settlement must be timely, whether the motion seeks permissive intervention or intervention as a matter of right.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/31/2000
• Decided 07/27/2001
• Published 07/27/2001

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and JOSEPH F. ANDERSON, Chief United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Arthur McKee Wisehart, Wisehart & Koch, New York, NY, for Appellants. William Francis Hanrahan, Groom Law Group, Chartered, Barbara J. Kraft, Beins, Axelrod & Kraft, P.C., Washington, DC;  Kenneth M. Johnson, Tuggle, Duggins & Meschan, P.A., Greensboro, NC, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Kahn, Smith & Collins, P.A., Baltimore, MD, for Appellants.  Leonie Hassel, Groom Law Group, Chartered, Washington, DC, for Appellees Scardelletti, et al.