Cuyahoga App. No. 70398. This cause is pending before the court as an appeal from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County. On July 31, 1997, appellee filed a request for oral argument which was due under S.Ct.Prac.R. IX(2)(B) no later than July 28, 1997. Whereas S.Ct.Prac.R. XIV(l)(c) prohibits the untimely filing of a request for oral argument,
IT IS ORDERED by the court, sua sponte, that appellee’s request for oral argument be, and hereby is, stricken.