J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B.

J. E. B. v. Alabama ex rel. T. B.
Supreme Court of the United States
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 (more) 114 S.Ct. 1419; 128 L. Ed. 2d 89; 1994 U.S. LEXIS 3121; 62 USLW 4219; 64 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) ¶ 42,967
Case history
Prior	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 P. Stevens Sandra Day O'Connor · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg
Concurrence	O'Connor
Concurrence	Kennedy
Dissent	Rehnquist
Dissent	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 landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States holding that peremptory challenges based solely on a prospective juror's sex are unconstitutional.^[1] J.E.B. extended the court's existing precedent in Batson v. Kentucky (1986), which found race-based peremptory challenges in criminal trials unconstitutional,^[2] and Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company (1991), which extended that principle to civil trials.^[3] As in Batson, the court found that sex-based challenges violate the Equal Protection Clause.