permissive intervention
- This is a concept in federal civil procedure where a specific law grants an opportunity to join a proceeding under certain conditions, or where the claim of the individual wishing to intervene shares a common legal or factual matter with the ongoing proceeding
- In a public interest lawsuit, a conservation organization sought permissive intervention to present new arguments.
- To bring new evidence to light, an interested third party sought permissive intervention in a corporate dispute.
- The town council filed for permissive intervention in a lawsuit involving a disputed local land use.
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