SPARKS v. ALLSTATE CONST., INC.

No. 3D08-2475.

16 So.3d 161 (2009)

Lawanda SPARKS, Appellant, v. ALLSTATE CONSTRUCTION, INC., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 8, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Billbrough & Marks, and Bart Billbrough and Geoffrey B. Marks, Coral Gables, for appellant.

Richard Sherman and James W. Sherman; Jeffrey S. Sandler and Robert F. Tacher, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

Before SUAREZ and SALTER, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Lawanda Sparks appeals a jury verdict in defendant's favor in her personal injury action against Allstate Construction, Inc. Finding that the trial court abused its discretion in allowing the defense's use of peremptory challenges to exclude African-Americans from the jury in a systematic fashion, we reverse.

Sparks slipped and fell on a sidewalk by her work at the Juvenile Justice Department. Allstate was performing construction workplace on the...

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