Commonwealth v. Palinkas

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting contention that all jurors of Roman Catholic faith should be disqualified from jury in property dispute lawsuit against defendant Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield where no jurors were taxpayers of town or members of local parish
• order excluding Roman Catholics from jury made one party’s peremptories impermissibly more valuable
• where persons excluded from the petit jury constituted an identifiable class
• error to exclude Roman Catholic jurors

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