Legal Opinion
Foster v. Boise-Cascade, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 31, 1978No. 76-3722PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
A class of black, female citizens filed suit on August 5, 1974, alleging discrimination on the basis of race and sex in the composition of the jury roll and box in Talladega County, Alabama.1 At the time of filing, women constituted 53.8% of the county population of an age to serve on a jury, but made up only 33.4% of the names on the jury roll — a differential of 20.4 percentage points. By December 1975, when the parties submitted the case to the District Court for decision, the defendant jury commissioners had twice revised the jury roll and box,2 resulting in a…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Taylor v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Castaneda v. PartidaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Turner v. FoucheSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Carter v. Jury Comm'n of Greene Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- United States v. ButeraCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by20 opinions
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- Copper Liquor, Inc., Robert Earl Basham, Jr., or the Estate of Harold Letcher, Deceased, Cross-Appellant v. Adolph Coors Company, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Piambino v. BaileyCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Piambino v. BaileyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Parker v. AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
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