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UNITED STATES v. BALLARD

No. 14496-Y.

35 F.Supp. 105 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. BALLARD et al.

District Court, S. D. California, Central Division.

October 8, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. Fleet Palmer, U. S. Atty., and Ralph E. Lazarus and Norman W. Neukom, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

W. I. Gilbert and Charles H. Carr, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants.

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 abridgment of the right...

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