United States v. Ballard

YANKWICH, District Judge.

In all three divisions of the Southern District of California, women are excluded from both Grand Jury and Petit Jury service. The practice is not traceable to any lack of proper accommodations for mixed juries. It is merely that the Court has continued the practice which obtained before the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (August 26, 1920), which forbade the denial or abridgement of the right to vote, by the United States or any state “on account of sex”.

Back of the policy is also the conviction of many that as the…