Senior District Judge Dan Polster of the Northern District of Ohio. (Courtesy photo) Can Courts Require Jurors to Be Vaccinated?
As courts begin reopening, judges and attorneys have raised the question of whether jurors' vaccine status could determine whether they serve on a jury. "It's kind of a hotly debated question, and different districts will handle it differently," said Dana Sabraw, chief judge of California's Southern District, in a State of the Court address earlier this year to the San Diego County Bar Association.
June 24, 2021 at 12:12 PM
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At a telephonic status conference earlier this month, Senior District Judge Dan Polster broached the idea of only having those jurors vaccinated against COVID-19 sit for an Oct. 4 trial over the opioid crisis. The plaintiffs, two Ohio counties, had no objection; the defendants, a group of pharmacies, didn't immediately respond.
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