Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company
Case Date: 05/06/1991
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Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, 500 U.S. 614 (1991),[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that peremptory challenges may not be used to exclude jurors on the basis of race in civil trials. Edmonson extended the court's similar decision in Batson v. Kentucky, a criminal case. The court applied the equal protection part of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment in finding that such race-based challenges violated the Constitution.
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