United States Ninth Circuit

Judgment creditor is not entitled to intervene as a matter of right in an environmental enforcement action that may impair the creditor's ability to collect a debt if the debt is not sufficiently related to the enforcement action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/11/2004
• Decided 06/03/2004
• Published 06/03/2004

Judges

• CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:, Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, TALLMAN, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Fogelman, Steefel, Levitt, & Weiss, San Francisco, CA, William C. Last, Jr., Last Harrelson & Faoro, San Mateo, CA, for the plaintiff-intervenor/appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth Kessler (argued), Todd S. Kim, Lori Jonas (briefed), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC; John D. Rothman, United States Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee., Marc Fairman, and Bennett Young, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.