Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Not written by a barrister. The name was thought up by a second-year American law student sitting in a coffeehouse in Manhattan. Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Don't rely. Quick work.
Fifth Circuit: La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Harris Cty Repub.
As the motion was timely and the impaired interest might not be sufficiently protected by the state's defense of the law, partisan political committees had a right to intervene in litigation challenging an election reform law.