General
UNITED STATES ex rel. PORET et al. v. SIGLER, WARDEN
361 U.S. 375·Supreme Court of the United States·1960
Brief incoming
Hand-reviewed Bluebook brief (procedural posture, facts, issue, holding, reasoning, dissent) ships once the AI generation pipeline runs through this case. Join the waitlist to get notified when 1L briefs go live.
Opinion
UNITED STATES ex rel. PORET et al. v. SIGLER, WARDEN.
No. 307,
Misc.
Decided January 25, 1960.
G. Wray Gill and Gerard H. Schreiber for petitioners.
Jack P. F. Gremillion, Attorney General of Louisiana, M. E. Culligan, Assistant Attorney General, and John E. Jackson, Jr., Special Counsel to the Attorney General, for respondent.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam.]
Per Curiam.
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is vacated and the case remanded to the District Court for disposition of the question whether members of petitioners’ race were deliberately and intentionally limited and excluded in the selection of petit jury panels, in violation of the Federal Constitution.