Race discrimination in jury selection
JoAnn Wright Haysbert v. Outback Steakhouse of Florida
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- JoAnn and Nazareth Haysbert have filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit case about Nazareth’s revoked permission to practice, JoAnn’s ability to raise his due-process claim, and scrutiny of a jury strike challenged as race-based under Batson (the rule against race-based strikes).
- What's at stake
- The Haysberts' challenges to their former lawyer's revoked permission and the disputed jury strike remain unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Batson is the rule against using race as a reason to strike a potential juror.
Question presented
1. Can a litigant’s former counsel appeal an order revoking his pro hac vice admission despite not having been a named party before the trial court? 2. Does a litigant have third-party standing to argue that her former counsel’s due process rights were violated by the revocation of his pro hac vice admission without the requisite notice and opportunity to be heard? 3. Does deference to the trial court’s credibility finding at Batson ’s third step excuse a reviewing court from considering whether the proffered race-neutral explanations for a peremptory strike are unreasonable, improbable, or lacking any basis in accepted trial strategy?
What happens next
The next step is for the Court to decide whether to hear the petition. No oral argument is scheduled before that decision.
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Sources
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