Taylor v. Louisiana
| Taylor v. Louisiana | |
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| Argued October 16, 1974 Decided January 21, 1975 | |
| Full case name | Billy J. Taylor v. Louisiana |
| Citations | 419 U.S. 522 (more) 95 S. Ct. 692, 42 L. Ed. 2d 690; 1975 U.S. LEXIS 2 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Appeal from the Louisiana Supreme Court |
| Holding | |
| A criminal defendant's 6th and 14th Amendment Rights are violated by the systematic exclusion of women from jury service. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | White, joined by Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell |
| Concurrence | Burger |
| Dissent | Rehnquist |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. XIV | |
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings | |
| Hoyt v. Florida (1961) | |
Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court which held that systematically excluding women from a venire, or jury pool, by requiring (only) them to actively register for jury duty violated the defendant's right to a representative venire. The court overturned Hoyt v. Florida, the 1961 case that had allowed such a practice.