Re: Any news on College Savings Bank oral arguments?

On 4/21/1999, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
>
> Yesterday (Tuesday, Apr. 20) was the scheduled date for oral argument
> in the Supreme Court case Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education v.
> College Savings Bank, No. 98-531. This is the case over whether a
> state may claim sovereign immunity for patent infringement (and, by
> implication, for trademark or copyright infringement).
>
> Anyone know anything about how the oral argument went?
>

There was quite a good report on Wednesday in the New York Times. Several of the conservative justices seemed to be of the opinion that banning suit in federal court wasn't too troubling, especially if the state provided a remedy in its courts.

Mark Lemley
<mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu> Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 14:44:31 GMT