Jury duty is an important civic responsibility, and it is one of the rare times that the average citizen gets a direct hand ...

Only days after a breastfeeding mother summoned for jury duty was forced to bring her 3-month-old daughter to an Alabama courthouse, the state Supreme Court declared breastfeeding women should be ...

The Alabama Supreme Court issued an administrative order that requires Alabama judges to have written procedures excusing ...

Only days after a mom was threatened with DHR for bringing her infant to the Jefferson County Courthouse, the Alabama Supreme Court issued an administrative order declaring a nursing mother should be ...

In a Jan. 14 follow-up Facebook post, Brown shared that state auditor and former legislator Andrew Sorrell has reached out to ...

Breastfeeding mothers will now be exempt from jury duty, according to an administrative order from the Alabama Supreme Court.

Before Friday’s decision, there were laws in the Alabama excusing prospective jurors because of certain health concerns, but breast feeding wasn’t included.

Kandace Brown reported to the Jefferson County Courthouse with her 3-month-old and said she was met with threats and hostility from judges.

Hoover, is working to prefile a bill that would excuse nursing mothers from serving on a jury. DuBose said she was motivated ...

They all made us, the other mothers there, feel like because we had our children there we were doing something wrong,” said ...

Sorrell said Alabama currently has no law exempting nursing mothers from jury duty. Alabama House Representative Susan Dubose ...