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141785P.pdf 06/01/2015 North Dakota v. Badlands Conservation Alliance
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-1785
U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Bismarck
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author,with Loken and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Quiet Title Act of 1972. Where four North Dakota counties
sued the United States to quiet title to alleged rights-of-way along
section lines that run throughout lands owned by the United States in the
Dakota Prairie Grassland area in North Dakota, the district court did not
err in denying a motion by three nonprofit environmental groups to
intervene; the groups had not overcome of the presumption of adequate
representation by the United States and the court did not err in denying
their motion to intervene as of right under Rule 24(a); the district court
did not abuse its discretion by denying permissive intervention out of
concerns over the delay which could arise by the interjection of issues
unrelated to quieting title.