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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Peterson denies Enbridge's motion to reopen and intervene in a lawsuit between the property owners and the city over the city's desire to use a driveway on their private property as a public road, which ultimately ended in a settlement with the property owners granting the city a limited easement to use the driveway to access a neighboring property. Though Enbridge claims it needs full public access to the driveway in order to reroute an oil and natural gas pipeline over the neighboring property, it has not proven it has a right to intervene and force the lawsuit to be reopened because its knowledge of the underlying lawsuit and settlement makes its intervention untimely and the prejudice to the property owners and city in reopening the settled lawsuit outweighs any prejudice to Enbridge, and its state-law claims are better suited for a separate state-level action.