Public Citizen v. FEC, No. 14-5199 (D.C. Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseCrossroads GPS, the beneficiary of a favorable decision by the Commission, moved to intervene as a defendant in a suit challenging the Commission’s ruling. The district court denied intervention, finding Crossroads’ interests were aligned with the FEC’s Office of General Counsel’s, which was defending the ruling. The court concluded that Crossroads has Article III standing because it has a concrete stake in the favorable agency action currently in place. The court rejected the Commission's argument that prudential standing prevents the court from hearing this case, because Crossroads' interest do not fall within the zone of interests the law protects, where the zone of interest has no applicability to an intervening defendant in this instance. The court further concluded that Crossroads easily met the minimal burden of showing inadequacy of representation and should be allowed to intervene as of right. Accordingly, the court reversed the judgment of the district court.
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