20 U.S.C. § 1709
Section 1709 · Intervention by Attorney General
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case United States v. Marion County School District (1980)
Most recently applied in T.R. v. School District of Philadelphia (November 2016)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Whenever a civil action is instituted under section 1706 of this title by an individual, the Attorney General may intervene in such action upon timely application.