Re: Any news on College Savings Bank oral arguments?

On 4/21/99, 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's a fairly detailed article in CalLaw, http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/stories/A822-1999Apr21.html. The article suggests a very close decision, with Kennedy as the key swing vote.  

John Muller
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"The ladder of law has no top and no bottom" Received on Thu Apr 22 1999 - 16:16:30 GMT