Judge: Intervenor’s Bid To Join Cigar Rivals’ $20M Sanctions Fight Is Untimely

Mealey's ( May 4, 2023, 3:22 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge denied as untimely a motion to intervene by a litigation funder that purchased an interest in a $44 million judgment awarded to a cigarillo maker for antitrust and breach of contract claims against another tobacco company, writing that it should have intervened after the judgment was vacated in 2019 due to fraud by the cigarillo company’s CEO....