Officers for Justice v. City and County of San Francisco

52 F.3d 334 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. OFFICERS FOR JUSTICE; United States of America, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, a municipal corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Stephen A. Zimmerman, Applicant in intervention-Appellant. No. 93-17179. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted April 4, 1995. * Decided April 13, 1995. Before: BRUNETTI, THOMPSON and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** OVERVIEW 2 Stephen A. Zimmerman, a Caucasian male police officer, appeals the district court's denial of his motion to intervene, pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 24(a) and 24(b), in an action contesting the validity of a San Francisco Police Department promotion examination. The examination was created and administered under the auspices of a consent decree settling a racial and sexual discrimination suit against the City of San Francisco. We affirm. FACTS 3 In 1973, individual racial minority and female police…