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DAVIS v. FISK ELEC. CO.

No. 06-0162.

268 S.W.3d 508 (2008)

Donald DAVIS, Petitioner, v. FISK ELECTRIC COMPANY, Fisk Technologies & Fisk Management Inc., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided September 26, 2008.

Rehearing Denied December 5, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Renuka V. Jain, Renuka V. Jain & Associates, P.C., Sugarland, TX, for Petitioner.

J. Cary Gray, Looper Reed & McGraw, P.C., Kyle Wayne Sanders, Looper Reed Mark & McGraw, Richard P. Hogan Jr., Jennifer Bruch Hogan, Hogan & Hogan, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Respondents.

Virginia K. Hoelscher, Brown McCarroll, L.L.P., Austin, Allecia Lindsey-Pottinger, Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae.

Chief Justice JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justice HECHT, Justice O'NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice WILLETT.

Our rules generally permit each party in a civil action to exercise six peremptory strikes, which are challenges "made to a juror without assigning any reason therefor." TEX.R.CIV. P. 232, 233. But peremptories exercised for an improper reason, like race or gender, are unconstitutional...

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