The Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A three-member federal appeals court panel will hear oral arguments Oct. 20 in St. Paul on the appeal of a sexual harassment case involving President Clinton and Paula Jones.
Mrs. Jones, who is appealing a U.S. District Court decision to dismiss her case, has not decided whether she will attend the arguments, said Nisha Mohammed of the Rutherford Institute, the Virginia-based conservative law center that represents her. Donovan Campbell and Rutherford President John Whitehead are among the Jones attorneys who will be in St. Paul.
The 8th Circuit, with headquarters in St. Louis, hears cases for Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota. The judges often hear cases outside of St. Louis. The same court overruled U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright of Arkansas in 1996 by saying the Jones case could go to trial while Clinton was president.
Jones filed suit against Clinton in 1994, claiming he propositioned her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1991 when Clinton was governor and she was a state employee. Clinton said he didn't recall meeting her and has denied anything improper happened.
Wright dismissed the lawsuit in April, saying Jones had failed to prove she was harmed emotionally or in her career.
The case will be heard by Chief Judge Pasco Bowman of Missouri, Senior Judge Donald Ross and Judge C. Arlen Beam, both of Nebraska.
