Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co.
Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, 500 U.S. 614 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case which 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 (1986), a criminal case. The Court applied the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, as determined in Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), in finding that such race-based challenges violated the Constitution.
| Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company | |
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Supreme Court of the United States | |
| Argued January 15, 1991 Decided June 3, 1991 | |
| Full case name | Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company |
| Citations | 500 U.S. 614 (more) 111 S. Ct. 2077; 114 L. Ed. 2d 660; 1991 U.S. LEXIS 3023 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | 860 F.2d 1308 (5th Cir. 1988); vacated on rehearing en banc, 895 F.2d 218 (5th Cir. 1990); cert. granted, 498 U.S. 809 (1990). |
| Holding | |
| Race-based use of peremptory challenges during jury selection in a civil trial between private litigants violates due process. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Kennedy, joined by White, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, Souter |
| Dissent | O'Connor, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia |
| Dissent | Scalia |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. V | |
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