United States Fifth Circuit

A petition for panel rehearing of a decision allowing an insurer to intervene to challenge on appeal an adverse liability judgment entered against its insured is denied over a claim that the insurer did not have a sufficient interest in the underlying litigation under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/11/2006
• Published 07/12/2006

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald J. Restrepo (argued), Max Christian Weber, Doyle, Restrepo, Harbin & Robbins, Houston, TX, for Movant-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Benjamin Lewis Hall, III, Sheryl Scott Chandler, The Hall Firm, Robert Alan York, Godwin, Pappas, Langley, Ronquillo, Byron Charles Keeling (argued), Keeling & Downes, David Wallace Holman, The Holman Law Firm, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.