Court to Be Asked for April Date on Gramm-Rudman
All parties in the Gramm-Rudman suit will ask the Supreme Court to hear arguments in late April on the constitutionality of the balanced-budget law, a lawyer representing the challengers said today.
Alan B. Morrison, attorney for 12 members of Congress challenging Gramm-Rudman, said all sides agreed to ask the high court in a formal appeal next week to hear arguments around April 23.
The court is to conclude its argument schedule for the 1985-86 term on April 30.
The agreed-upon timetable by lawyers in the case calls for legal briefs on the constitutional issues to be filed by March 19 with responses due April 9.
On Feb. 7, a special three-judge federal court declared unconstitutional the central provision of Gramm-Rudman requiring automatic spending cuts to eliminate the federal deficit by 1991.
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