United States Fifth Circuit

A grant of intervention given to the Texas Board of Public Accountancy in In re Enron for the purpose of accessing discovery protected by court order is affirmed where there was jurisdiction to hear the interlocutory appeal from the grant, and there was no abuse of discretion in allowing the intervention.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/16/2006
• Published 03/17/2006

Judges

• PRADO, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, BARKSDALE and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Russell Hardin, Jr., Andrew Lee Ramzel, Rusty Hardin & Associates, Houston, TX, for Intervenors.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Wald (argued), Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA, Russell Hardin, Jr., Andrew Lee Ramzel, Lara Hudgins Hollingsworth, Rusty Hardin & Associates, Houston, TX, Miles N. Ruthberg, James J. Farrell, Ethan J. Brown, Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellant., Charles B. McDonald (argued), David Calvin Mattax, Asst. Atty. Gens., Austin, TX, for Intervenor-Appellee.