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Title: Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co.
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Release Date : January 05, 1988
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 69 KB

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ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge: The issue is whether the guarantee of equal protection of the laws forbids the exercise of peremptory challenges on racial grounds by a private litigant in the trial of a civil case in federal district court. We hold that it does, thus extending the principle announced by the Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky.1