Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co.

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Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15, 1991 Decided June 3, 1991
Full case name	Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company
Citations	500 U.S. 614 (more) 111 S. Ct. 2077; 114 L. Ed. 2d 660; 1991 U.S. LEXIS 3023
Case history
Prior	860 F.2d 1308 (5th Cir. 1988); vacated on rehearing en banc, 895 F.2d 218 (5th Cir. 1990); cert. granted, 498 U.S. 809 (1990).
Holding
Race-based use of peremptory challenges during jury selection in a civil trial between private litigants violates due process.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · John P. Stevens Sandra Day O'Connor · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by White, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, Souter
Dissent	O'Connor, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia
Dissent	Scalia
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. V

Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, 500 U.S. 614 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that peremptory challenges may not be used to exclude jurors on the basis of race in civil trials.^[1] Edmonson extended the court's similar decision in Batson v. Kentucky (1986), a criminal case. The Court applied the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, as determined in Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), in finding that such race-based challenges violated the Constitution.