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affirming district court's denial of Daker's motion to intervene where "Daker's complaint alleged different wrongs and different incidents at a different prison" because "Daker was not entitled to circumvent the requirement that he pay a filing fee, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b), by intervening in another prisoner's lawsuit"
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No. 17-14972
05-08-2020
WASEEM DAKER, Movant-Appellant, v. WARDEN GREGORY MCLAUGHLIN, Macon State Prison, TREVONZA BOBBITT, Tier II Officer, Macon State Prison, KENDRICK WILKINSON, Tier II Officer, Macon State Prison, STEPHEN BOSTICK, Tier II Counselor, Macon State Prison, LIEUTENANT DOMINICO DEMUNDO, Macon State Prison, et al., Defendants-Appellees, TRACY McINTOSH, Tier II Unit Manager, Macon State Prison, et al., Defendants.
[DO NOT PUBLISH] Non-Argument Calendar D.C. Docket No. 5:15-cv-00395-MTT-MSH Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia Before WILSON, WILLIAM PRYOR and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:
Waseem Daker, a Georgia prisoner, appeals pro se the denial of his motion to intervene, Fed. R. Civ. P. 24, in a civil-rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, filed by an inmate, Todd Upshaw, at another Georgia prison. Daker argues that the district court erred in ruling that he lacked a sufficient interest in Upshaw's lawsuit and that, under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b), he was not entitled to intervene without first paying a filing fee. Because the district court committed no error, we dismiss Daker's appeal.
We have provisional jurisdiction under the "anomalous rule" to review an order denying intervention. Fed. Sav. & Loan Ins. Corp. v. Falls Chase Special Taxing Dist., 983 F.2d 211, 214 (11th Cir. 1993) (quotation marks omitted). If the decision was correct, we must dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. See id. If the district court erred, we retain jurisdiction and must reverse. Id. We review a denial of a motion to intervene de novo and subsidiary findings of fact for clear error. Tech. Training Assocs. v. Buccaneers Ltd. P'ship, 874 F.3d 692, 695 (11th Cir. 2017).
The district court committed no error. Daker moved to intervene after the district court had already granted summary judgment in favor of the officials in Upshaw's action, and Daker's complaint alleged different wrongs about different incidents at a different prison. And under our precedent, Hubbard v. Haley, 262 F.3d 1194, 1197 (11th Cir. 2001), Daker was not entitled to circumvent the requirement that he pay a filing fee, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b), by intervening in another prisoner's lawsuit.
APPEAL DISMISSED.