BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Lawyers for Penn State and its former president Graham Spanier (SPAN'-yer) are heading to court next month to discuss whether his lawsuit seeking access to old emails related to a sex abuse investigation should be dismissed. A court order dated Friday scheduled argument on the matter for Aug. 17 in the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte. Spanier wants a judge to order Penn State to provide him with emails from 1998 to 2004 relating to an investigation being led by former FBI director Louis Freeh (LOO'-ee free) of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. In April, a university lawyer told Spanier's attorneys state prosecutors asked it not to share the emails so an ongoing investigation wouldn't be compromised. Spanier was Penn State president for 16 years. Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing boys. He maintains his innocence.
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In this photo combo, at left, in an Oct. 8, 2011 file photo, Penn State president Graham Spanier walks on the field before an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa. At right, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse in custody after being found guilty of multiple charges of child sexual abuse in Bellefonte, Pa., Friday, June 22, 2012. CNN says it has seen emails showing Spanier agreed not to take allegations of sex abuse against Sandusky to authorities but worried they'd be "vulnerable" for failing to report it. CNN says the emails followed a graduate assistant's 2001 report of seeing Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in a shower. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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