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Article: High Court to Consider Clinton Immunity Claim; Harassment Case Likely Pushed Past Election
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- June 25, 1996
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The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to consider President
Clinton's claim that the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former
Arkansas state employee Paula Corbin Jones should not proceed while
he is in office, an action that likely postpones further
developments in the case until after the November election.
Clinton's lawyers sought the action by arguing that a
president should not be vulnerable to private civil lawsuits while
serving in the White House except in the most exceptional
circumstances. The court is not expected to hear oral arguments in
the case until December or January. A decision would be handed down
sometime before the court recesses in the summer of 1997.
The ...