Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Carter v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance

Carter v. Conn. Mut. Life Ins., 404 U.S. 857 (1971)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1971-10-12
Topic
estate-planning

rejecting equal protection challenge to requirement that county’s grand jurors be at least 35 years of age | exclusion of jurors below the age of 35 justified on the ground that the state can take advantage of older persons’ greater experience; pre-Duren | practice of excluding welfare recipients from jury service had no statutory basis and was terminated | county’s voluntary jury selection system did not violate constitutional rights | breach of contract and tortious injury to business

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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.