United States Ninth Circuit

In a proceeding brought to extend a prior judgment in multidistrict litigation against Ferdinand Marcos and his estate so that an enforcement action in another district could proceed, orders denying intervention to the party against whom collection was sought are reversed, and an order granting the extension is vacated, where: 1) the party against whom enforcement was sought had a significant protectable interest at stake that gave it the right to be heard in the extension proceeding, and to appeal; and 2) the district court erred in extending the judgment pursuant to a request that was not made within ten years after the original judgment was rendered.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/17/2008
• Decided 07/31/2008
• Published 07/31/2008

Judges

• RYMER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALFRED T. GOODWIN, PAMELA ANN RYMER, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eugene D. Gulland (argued) and Richard A. Jones, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C., for the proposed-intervenors-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jon Van Dyke, Honolulu, HI, (argued);  Robert A. Swift, Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for the appellee.