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35 St. Mary's L.J. 117 (2003-2004)
Jury Patriotism: The Jury System Should be Improved for Texans Called to Serve

handle is hein.journals/stmlj35 and id is 127 raw text is: ESSAY JURY PATRIOTISM: THE JURY SYSTEM SHOULD BE IMPROVED FOR TEXANS CALLED TO SERVE* K.B. BATTAGLINI** MARK A. BEHRENS*** CARY SILVERMAN**** I. Introduction ........................................... 118 II. Excuses from Jury Duty Should Be Limited to True H ardship ............................................... 121 III. Jury Service Should Be More User Friendly....... 123 A. Giving Jurors an Easy Means to Reschedule Service ............................................. 123 B. Limiting Service to One Day or One Trial ........ 124 * Portions of this Essay appeared in Victor E. Schwartz et al., The Jury Patriotism Act: Making Jury Service More Appealing and Rewarding to Citizens, THE STATE FACTOR (Am. Legis. Exch. Council, Apr. 2003), available at http://www.alec.org/meSWFiles/pdf/03 09.pdf. ** K.B. Battaglini is a partner in the Houston office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. He practices business and commercial litigation, products liability litigation, and premises liability litigation. He received his B.A. from the State University of New York in 1974 and his J.D. from the South Texas College of Law in 1981. *** Mark A. Behrens is a partner in the Public Policy Group of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. He is an advisor to the American Legislative Exchange Council's Civil Justice Task Force. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1990, where he served on the Vanderbilt Law Review. **** Cary Silverman is an associate in the Public Policy Group of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. He received a B.S. in Management Science from the State University of New York College at Geneseo in 1997, an M.P.A. from The George Washington University in 2000, and a J.D. with honors from The George Washington University Law School in 2000, where he served as Managing Editor of The Environmental Lawyer.

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