28 U.S.C. § 1862
Discrimination prohibited
No citizen shall be excluded from service as a grand or petit juror in the district courts of the United States or in the Court of International Trade on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 115
cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1949–2025 · leading case: Bostock v. Clayton Cnty., 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020).
Bostock v. Clayton Cnty., 140 S. Ct. 1731 (2020). “§994 (d) (Duties of the United States Sentencing Commission) 28 U. S. C. §1862 (Trial by Jury; Discrimination Prohibited) 28 U.”
State of Iowa v. Kelvin Plain Sr., 898 N.W.2d 801 (Iowa 2017). “22, with 28 U.S.C. §§ 1862 , 1864 (2012). Under the second Duren prong, a defendant must establish the proportion of group members in the jury pool is underrepresentative of the proportion of group members in the community.”
Hobby v. United States, 468 U.S. 339 (1984). “28 U. S. C. § 1862 . IV We hold that, assuming discrimination entered into the selection of federal grand jury foremen, such discrimination does not warrant the reversal of the conviction of, and dismissal of the indictment against, a white male bringing a claim under the Due…”
Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., 500 U.S. 614 (1991). “§ 243 ; 28 U. S. C. § 1862 . Statutes prescribe many of the details of the jury plan, 28 U.”
United States v. Alexander Ovalle (94-1566) John Ovalle, Jr. (94-2044) Benito S. Canales (94-2100) Nicholas A. Garcia (94-2263), 136 F.3d 1092 (6th Cir. 1998). “” 28 U.S.C. § 1862 . The plain meaning of this section is a clear prohibition of discrimination in the selection of grand and petit juries.”
United States v. Richard Albert Jenkins, 496 F.2d 57 (2d Cir. 1974). “§ 1861 , from which no citizen is excluded because of race or color, 28 U.S.C. § 1862 . Recognizing that in most communities current lists of registered or actual voters would provide the best practical means of obtaining a fair cross-section, Congress provided that each plan…”
Thaddeus Donald Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., Inc., 895 F.2d 218 (5th Cir. 1990). “28 U.S.C. § 1862 . . 28 U.S.C. § 1863 . .”
United States v. Amy Ralston Pofahl, Charles T. Nunn, & Randy White, 990 F.2d 1456 (5th Cir. 1993). “28 U.S.C. § 1862 (1988) provides: No citizen shall be excluded from service as a grand or petit juror in the district courts of the United States .”
United States v. William Beavers, 756 F.3d 1044 (7th Cir. 2014). “” 28 U.S.C. § 1862 . A statutory challenge must be made by motion “before the voir dire examination begins, or within seven days after the defendant discovered or could have discovered, by the exercise of diligence, the grounds therefor, whichever is earlier.”
United States v. Resley Grose, United States of Am. v. James Calvin Eaton, 525 F.2d 1115 (7th Cir. 1976). “Racial discrimination in the selection of jury panels is prohibited by 28 U.S.C. § 1862 . 1 However, defendant failed to satisfy procedural prerequisites for a statutory challenge to the jury array.”
United States v. Jwuan Moreland, 703 F.3d 976 (7th Cir. 2012). “(1968), reprinted at 1968 U.S.C.C.A.N. 1792, 1798, which is the opposite of the complaint here; and anyway excusing a prospective juror because of commitments is not exclusion on account of economic status, though there may be a correlation between affluence and commitments that…”
Gause v. United States, 6 A.3d 1247 (D.C. 2010). “" 28 U.S.C. § 1862 (1980). The DCJSA has a similar section entitled "Prohibition of discrimination," which provides that "[a] citizen of the District of Columbia may not be excluded or disqualified from jury service as a grand or petit juror in the District of Columbia on…”
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