Samuelson v. Brader Hauling Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “just cause” encompasses “all kinds of problems–temporary as well as those of long duration–that may befall a juror,” and holding that dismissal of a juror because of her distraught emotional state was proper
• stressing that the decision to excuse a juror is committed to the district court’s discretion and must be affirmed unless the appeals court is left with the definite and firm conviction that the dis- trict court committed a clear error of judgment
• declining to decide whether district court’s improper substitution of alternate jurors was structural error or subject to harmless error review because even if the latter could apply, “[i]t has not been shown that the error was harmless”
• dismissal of two jurors proper after they became involved in an ongoing, bitter argument leaving them emotionally unstable and unable to deliberate
• dismissal of two jurors proper after they became involved in an ongoing, bitter argument leaving them emotionally unstable and unable to deliberate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).