Nov 18 (Reuters) - A group of U.S. states can intervene in a case over Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's HPE.N $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks JNPR.MX, which the U.S. Department of Justice has proposed to settle and let the deal move forward, a judge said during a hearing on Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts in San Jose, California said Colorado and a other states can weigh in on the deal, but did not decide whether he will probe the circumstances under which it was reached, which the states have called suspicious.

(Reporting by Jody Godoy in New York; Editing by Chris Reese)

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