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Intermeddler

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in·ter·med·dle  (ntr-mdl)
intr.v. in·ter·med·dled, in·ter·med·dling, in·ter·med·dles
To interfere in the affairs of others, often officiously; meddle.

[Middle English entermedlen, from Old French entremedler : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + medler, to mix; see meddle.]

inter·meddler n.


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45) Finally, "standing requirements are said to serve the value of fairness by ensuring that people will raise only their own rights and concerns and that people cannot be intermeddlers trying to protect others who do not want the protection offered.
Moreover, there is the risk that federal prosecutors in a subsequent action may be seen, even by a federal jury, as officious intermeddlers and outsiders.
Such an agreement cannot fairly be viewed as a "champertous" agreement entered into by intermeddlers seeking to stir up litigation, nor as a Mary Carter-type settlement which requires a settling defendant to stay in the case and participate in trial to advance secretly the plaintiff's, rather than its own, interests.
 
 
 
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