Paula Jones Appeal to Be Heard Oct. 20

A three-member federal appeals court panel will hear oral arguments Oct. 20 in St. Paul, Minn., on the appeal of a sexual harassment case involving President Clinton and Paula Corbin Jones. Jones, who is appealing a U.S. District Court decision to dismiss her case, has not decided whether she will attend the arguments, said Nisha Mohammed of the Rutherford Institute, the Virginia-based conservative law center that represents her. Jones filed suit against Clinton in 1994, claiming he propositioned her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1991 when he was governor and she was a state employee. Clinton said he didn’t recall meeting her and has denied anything improper happened. A judge dismissed the lawsuit in April, saying Jones had failed to prove she was harmed emotionally or in her career.