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EDMONSON v. LEESVILLE CONCRETE CO., INC.

No. 87-4804.

860 F.2d 1308 (1988)

Thaddeus Donald EDMONSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LEESVILLE CONCRETE COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Order on Grant of Rehearing January 23, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Doyle, Lake Charles, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

John B. Honeycutt, Jr., Steven C. Graalmann, Percy, Smith, Wilson, Foote, Walker & Honeycutt, Alexandria, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before WISDOM, GEE and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.

Order on Grant of Rehearing En Banc January 23, 1989.

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

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