Jury duty is an important civic responsibility, and it is one of the rare times that the average citizen gets a direct hand in the justice system. Parenting is an important duty to our children, and ...

Richard Snyder, a town justice in upstate New York, said he could not serve as an impartial grand juror because he believed ...

Current state law allows individuals summoned for jury duty to be excused on a case-by-case basis for "serious physical or mental illness," though they must provide a doctor's note. Other accepted ...

And used me as the excuse ... clerks mail my sister-in-law a letter threatening to hold her in contempt if she did not show up on the next date for jury duty. And ironically, it’s a week ...

A New Jersey jury returned an $8 million verdict in favor of a nearly 70-year-old Newark woman who was injured by retail employees chasing a shoplifting suspect. According to the plaintiff's ...

A federal jury on Tuesday awarded over $5 million in ... When Reigenborn took office on Jan. 8, 2019, he told staff that future employment decisions were at his discretion, the lawsuit claimed.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Breastfeeding women in Alabama will be excused from jury duty, the state’s highest court ordered unanimously on Friday, in response to public outcry from a mother who ...

Kandace Brown, who says she was threatened with DHR for bringing her three-month-old daughter with her to jury duty, told AL.com that she called and turned in forms to be excused prior to ...

For the next few hours, Brown said she was met with threats and hostility from judges and other courtroom employees ... in forms to be excused prior to reporting for jury duty but was refused.