Johnny Reynolds William Adams Cheryl Caine Tim Colquitt William Flowers v. Jim Butts Halycon Vance Ballard’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““The intervenors have legal rights at stake in this litigation, namely rights under the Equal Protection Clause, Title VII, and state merit-system law to compete for state jobs on a race-neutral basis. The clear law of this circuit is that “a consent decree requires the consent of all parties whose legal rights would be adversely affected by the decree.” United States v. City of Hialeah, 140 F.3d 968, 975 (11th Cir.1998); see also White v. Alabama, 74 F.3d 1058 , 1073 (11th Cir.1996) (“In this circuit, a decree that provides a remedy agreed to by some, but not all, of the parties cannot affect the rights of a dissenting party.”); id. at 1076 (Black, J., specially concurring) (“Once a party intervenes, he becomes a full participant and is entitled to have his claims litigated.”).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 261 F. Supp. 2d 1331 - Reynolds v. Alabama Department of Transportation