United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of intervention as of right under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a) is reversed where health care providers are entitled to intervene in a case challenging the constitutionality of a federal appropriations rider, involving abortion, enacted to protect their interests.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/19/2006
• Decided 06/12/2006
• Published 06/12/2006

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge., Before B. FLETCHER, KOZINSKI and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James F. Sweeney, Sweeney & Greene LLP, Sacramento, CA, for appellant Alliance of Catholic Health Care., Steven H. Aden, M. Casey Mattox, Center for Law and Religious Freedom of the Christian Legal Society, Springfield, VA, for appellants Christian Medical Association et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Antonette B. Cordero, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees., August E. Flentje, Assistant United States Attorney, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees.