Montgomery will appear in November
 |  Montgomery has received a date to appear before the CAS |
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LONDON, England -- World 100 meters record holder Tim Montgomery will appear before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in San Francisco in the first week of November for a hearing over a possible life ban for doping.
Montgomery and fellow-sprinter Chryste Gaines are going before CAS after getting letters from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency alleging doping violations.
Gaines' lawyer Cameron Myler has revealed that the hearings are scheduled to start on November 1.
"CAS has intended to hold both hearings in the same week," she said.
Both athletes have declined arbitration by USADA, which has yet to present its final cases against the pair, and elected to go directly to the independent Lausanne-based panel.
The cases will be heard separately by the three-person panel. A decision by CAS arbitrators is final and cannot be appealed.
Both cases follow an investigation into the BALCO laboratory in California after Trevor Graham, the former coach of Montgomery and Jones, sent a syringe of the designer steroid THG to USADA in June last year.
Scientists at the Olympic Analytical Laboratory in Los Angeles then developed a test for the previously undetectable drug, which is chemically related to the banned steroid gestrinone.
As a result the BALCO laboratory was raided by agents from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation unit and the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force.
Conte was indicted by a grand jury and five athletes, including Britain's European 100 meters champion Dwain Chambers, were banned for two years after testing positive for THG.
Double world sprint champion Kelli White was also banned for two years after admitting taking several drugs including THG.
Although Montgomery has never failed a drugs test, USADA can ban athletes for "non-analytical positives" i.e. evidence of drug-taking other than a positive test.
