Despite a court decision to temporarily prohibit the Cincinnati Bengals from changing ownership of personal seat licenses at Paul Brown Stadium, season ticket holders can still submit forms requesting relocation of their seats for the 2001 season, a team spokesman said Friday.

        Jeff Berding, Bengals director of sales and public affairs, said the organization respects the order of the Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals and intends to abide by it.

        However, Mr. Berding said the court's decision does not forbid fans from sending in their requests to move their seats.

        “In fact, season ticket holders should continue to let us know if they would like to relocate their seats and where,” he said. “And they should do so before the (Dec. 31) deadline to ensure they don't miss the chance to have their seats relocated, because right now we don't know what the court will decide.”

        Mr. Berding said his office was flooded with calls Friday from season ticket holders who were unsure whether the court's decision barred them from turning in the forms or the Bengals from accepting them.

        The Bengals issued a statement Thursday saying there would be no reassignment of seats while the order remained in effect.

        A three-judge panel Thursday ordered the Bengals to keep the seating arrangement at the stadium the same until a Jan. 11 hearing in the appeals court.

        The Bengals will try to convince the court during that hearing to overturn a Nov. 15 decision by Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman in which he decreed that the team's dispute with some season ticket holders should go to trial and not arbitration.

        Disgruntled fans filed a class-action lawsuit in September against the Bengals and the county in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, charging that their assigned seats at the stadium were not equal to the seats they were promised or had paid for. The lawsuit asks the court to award unspecified damages and to order either refunds to season ticket holders or reassignment of seat locations.

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