Hoyt v. Florida

Summary

The Court affirmed the conviction, holding that Florida's statutory system permitting women to serve on juries only if they registered did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment either on its face or as applied. The sex-based exemption was supported by a reasonable classification, and the record did not establish an arbitrary or systematic administrative exclusion of women. The Chief Justice, Justice Black, and Justice Douglas concurred in the result because they found that Florida was making a good-faith, nondiscriminatory effort to have women perform jury duty.