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An Alabama woman is claiming she was forced to attend jury duty while breastfeeding — and it has sparked outrage in her community. Kandace Brown of Morris said she was summoned for jury duty in ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Breastfeeding women in Alabama will be excused from jury duty, the state's highest court ordered unanimously on Friday, in response to public outcry from a mother who said that she was threatened with child protective services for bringing her nursing infant into court.
Talarico said jury duty is an important constitutional right and that a small number of people are ever called to serve. He said a majority of people are excused for a cause or excused because ...
"Women are too sentimental for jury duty" (1915) The jury of matrons was an early exception to the exclusion of women from juries. Stemming from English common law, matrons in the American colonies were occasionally called upon in cases involving pregnant women to offer expertise on pregnancy and childbirth. [1]
Is it okay to grumble about being called to jury duty? I think so.
Juror misconduct is when the law of the court is violated by a member of the jury while a court case is in progression or after it has reached a verdict. [1] Misconduct can take several forms: Communication by the jury with those outside of the trial/court case. Those on the outside include “witnesses, attorneys, bailiffs, or judges about the ...
J. E. B. v. Alabama ex rel. T. B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States holding that peremptory challenges based solely on a prospective juror's sex are unconstitutional. [1] J.E.B. extended the court's existing precedent in Batson v.
You can be exempt from jury duty for simply just being past this age Once you turn 18, you are eligible to participate in jury duty . If you don’t show up, you will receive a hefty fine between ...