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Alabama supreme court grants breastfeeding women exemption from jury duty after public outcry 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 ...
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 ...
"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]
Aug. 3—Question : I read in your column a few years ago that if you're 80 years old you can be exempted from jury duty. I received a jury notice about two months ago for jury duty reporting July 25.
Jury duty or jury service is a service as a juror in a legal proceeding.Different countries have different approaches to juries: [1] variations include the kinds of cases tried before a jury, how many jurors hear a trial, and whether the lay person is involved in a single trial or holds a paid job similar to a judge, but without legal training.
Here’s one way to get out of jury duty. ... 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 ...
Duren v. Missouri is a Supreme Court case in which it ruled that the exemption on request of women from jury service under Missouri law, resulting in an average of less than 15% women on jury venires in the forum county, violated the "fair-cross-section" requirement of the Sixth Amendment as made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth ...
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 ...