Amador County, CA v. Dept. of the Interior, No. 13-5245 (D.C. Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseThe County filed suit against the Department, challenging the Secretary's approval of a gaming compact between the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians and the State of California. The Tribe sought to intervene after six years of litigation for the purpose of dismissing the amended complaint under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19. The court concluded that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion as untimely where the district court set forth the proper test, analyzed the relevant factors, and concluded that the Tribe's motion did not satisfy Rule 24(a)'s timeliness requirement. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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