Chevron Environmental Management Company v. Environmental Protection Corporation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHEVRON ENVIRONMENTAL No. 1:19-cv-00807-NONE-JLT

MANAGEMENT COMPANY, A

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, et al., ORDER DENYING NONPARTIES’ MOTION

TO INTERVENE UNDER FED. R. CIV. P.

Plaintiffs, (Doc. Nos. 25, 27) v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

CORPORATION,

16 Defendant. 17 Before the court for consideration is a motion to intervene in this action brought by nonparty National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburg, P.A. (“National Union”) on November 15, 2019. (Doc. No. 25.) That motion was joined1 seven days later by another nonparty, North Star Reinsurance Corporation (“North Star”). (Doc. No. 27.) Both the motion to intervene and the joinder were filed over one month after a default judgment was entered against the prospective intervenors’ insured, defendant Environmental Protection Corporation (“defendant”), and in favor of plaintiffs Chevron Environmental Management Company and

26 For purposes of efficiency, North Star agreed to have National Union take the…