Below are the cases scheduled for oral argument before the Supreme Court in April 1999.

Monday, April 19

Cunningham v. Hamilton County • Docket number: 98-727 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit • Subject: Timing of an attorney's appeal for sanctions

Amoco Production Co. v. Southern Ute Indian Tribe • Docket number: 98-830 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit • Subjects: Rights over methane/natural gas; reserving "coal" in lands patented under the 1909 and 1910 Coal Land Acts

Tuesday, April 20

College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Board • Docket number: 98-149 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit • Subjects: Business competition; constructive consent doctrine; interstate marketing; Trademark Remedy Clarification Act of 1992, Pub L. No. 102-542, 106 State. 3567 (1992); Lanham Act; Fifth Amendment; Eleventh Amendment

Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Board v. College Savings Bank • Docket number: 98-531 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit • Subjects: Immunity of states; Congressional power; Eleventh Amendment; patent infringement; section 2 of the Patent and Plant Variety Protection Remedy Clarification Act, Pub. L. No. 102-560, 106 Stat. 4230 (1992), 32 U.S.C. 271(h), 296(a)

Wednesday, April 21

Olmstead v. L.C. • Docket number: 98-536 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit • Subjects: State responsibilities under the public services portion of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 12112(a); community placement or institutionalization of the mentally ill; Fourteenth Amendment

Snyder v. Trepagnier • Docket number: 98-507 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit • Subjects: Use of excessive force in arrests; qualified immunity; special jury verdicts

Monday, April 26

West v. Gibson • Docket number: 98-238 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit • Subjects: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; employment discrimination by agencies of the federal government; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 200e et seq.

Reno v. Bossier Parish School Board • Docket number: 98-405 Price v. Bossier Parish School Board • Docket number: 98-406 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit • Subjects: School board voting district boundaries; Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Supreme Court decided the case the first time in 1997.

Tuesday, April 27

Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Association, Inc. v. United States • Docket number: 98-387 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit • Subjects: Federal government action to ban advertising for lawful casino gambling; First Amendment

Murphy v. United Parcel Service, Inc. • Docket number: 97-1992 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit • Subjects: Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 12112(a); employment discrimination

Wednesday, April 28

Sutton v. United Airlines, Inc. • Docket number: 97-1943 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit • Subjects: Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 12112(a); employment discrimination

Albertsons, Inc. v. Kirkingburg • Docket number: 98-591 • Appealed From: U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit • Subjects: Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 12112(a); employment discrimination

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