J.E.B. v. Alabama

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J.E.B. v. Alabama

Argued November 2, 1993
Decided April 19, 1994

Full case name:	J.E.B., Petitioner v. ALABAMA ex rel. T.B.

Citations:	511 U.S. 127; 114 S.Ct. 1419, 64 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 42,967, 128 L.Ed.2d 89, 62 USLW 4219

Prior history:	Certiorari to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals 606 So.2d 156

Holding

Intentional discrimination on the basis of gender by state actors in the use of peremptory strikes in jury selection violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

Court membership

Chief Justice: William Rehnquist
Associate Justices: Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Case opinions

Majority by: Blackmun
Joined by: Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg
Concurrence by: O'Connor
Concurrence by: Kennedy
Dissent by: Rehnquist
Dissent by: Scalia
Joined by: Rehnquist, Thomas

Laws applied

U.S. Const. amend. XIV

J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that making peremptory challenges based solely on a prospective juror's sex is unconstitutional. J.E.B. extended the court's existing precedent in Batson v. Kentucky (1986), which found race-based peremptory challenges in criminal trials unconstitutional, and Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company (1991), which extended that principle to civil trials. Like in Batson, the court found that gender-based challenges violate the Equal Protection Clause.

The Majority opinion was written by Justice Blackmun. Justice O'Connor wrote a concurring opinion, and Justice Kennedy separately concurred in the judgment. Chief Justice Rehnquist filed a separate dissenting opinion. Justice Scalia also filed a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Thomas.