It has become more commonplace to hear talk about a future of litigation without peremptory strikes. After all, Arizona in 2022 was the first state to eliminate strikes in all cases, and it may not be ...

More than 600 peremptory challenges were filed in District Court last year for attorneys to ask for civil and family court cases to be heard by a different judge. In Nevada, attorneys are allowed to ...

The Consumer Attorneys of California and the California Defense Counsel seek to amend a 2020 state law restricting when and how attorneys can dismiss prospective jurors without stating a reason. The ...

A 2020 law makes it tougher for lawyers to use peremptory challanges in certain criminal trial scenarios. Litigator lobbies have asked the Legislature to stop that law from applying to civil cases, as ...

A bill that would give lawyers more leeway to ask questions aimed at identifying biased jurors passed out of the Maryland Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee Friday. The proposal would expand the ...

The judge rejected Friday Trump's legal team's argument that the media coverage around the trial may have prejudices potential jurors. Baston challenge refers to challenge made by a party in a case to ...

The court empaneled a 16-member jury Tuesday in the Darrell Brooks trial; 10 men, six women, all white. This, after Brooks refused to cooperate with the peremptory challenge process, and the court ...

ALBANY – Through the use of limited peremptory challenges, attorneys have been able to disqualify potential jurors from trials without needing to explain the reason why they wanted the jurors off the ...

Today California senators will vote on a bill that would reduce the number of peremptory challenges in misdemeanor criminal cases from 10 to five. While we are rarely on the same side, statewide ...

Trial by a jury of your peers is a cornerstone of democracy. Participating in a jury trial gives each citizen an active role in the legal process, a direct voice in achieving justice and a front seat ...

In the case of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 US. 79 (1986), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lawyers are prohibited from exercising peremptory challenges based on the prospective juror’s race, as it ...