28 U.S.C. § 1870 — Challenges
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 646 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 69 words · no verdicts yet
In a civil case, each party gets three peremptory challenges. The court may treat multiple plaintiffs or defendants as one party, or allow more challenges and let them be used separately or together; the court decides challenges for cause or favor.
In a civil case, each party is entitled to three peremptory challenges. The court may treat several defendants or plaintiffs as one party for making challenges, or allow additional peremptory challenges to be exercised separately or jointly. The court decides every challenge for cause or favor, whether directed at the jury group, panel, or an individual juror.
In civil cases, each party shall be entitled to three peremptory challenges. Several defendants or several plaintiffs may be considered as a single party for the purposes of making challenges, or the court may allow additional peremptory challenges and permit them to be exercised separately or jointly.
All challenges for cause or favor, whether to the array or panel or to individual jurors, shall be determined by the court.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 953; Pub. L. 86–282, Sept. 16, 1959, 73 Stat. 565.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 646 · 62 Stat. 953
- 1959Amended · Pub. L. 86-282 · 73 Stat. 565
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