Sentence examples for that peremptory from inspiring English sources

So I agree that peremptory dismissals are a bad idea.

That decision recognized an exception to the general rule that peremptory challenges are completely discretionary.

Critics also charge that peremptory challenges are used to cover improper juror exclusions, particularly those based on race.

But the justices could also use the case to put some teeth into Batson v. Kentucky, a 1986 decision that made an exception to the centuries-old rule that peremptory challenges are completely discretionary and cannot be second-guessed.

Jury Challenges Seventeen years after ruling that peremptory jury challenges could not be used in a racially discriminatory manner, the court agreed to settle a dispute over how such cases should proceed.

Trials are not fair if a party can use peremptory challenges to craft a jury that is biased in its favor, but it is also true that peremptory challenges can make a trial fairer in perception and reality.

"The decision today will not end the racial discrimination that peremptories inject into the jury selection process," Justice Marshall wrote.

Yet the cure that peremptories represent, with their inevitable racial and ethnic calculus, does seem worse than the disease.

The decision today will not end the racial discrimination that peremptories inject into the jury-selection process.

The case came before the Supreme Court, which ruled that the peremptory challenge could not be used if the reason not given was manifestly a reason of race.

The court denied the application for a feference, and rendered judgment in favor of the relator, and that a peremptory writ of mandamus issue.