Lee_v._Missouri
Duren v. Missouri
1979 United States Supreme Court case
Duren v. Missouri, 439 U.S. 357 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case related to the Sixth Amendment. It challenged Missouri's law allowing gender-based exemption from jury service.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who later became a Supreme Court Justice, and Lee Nation argued for Duren[1] in what became Ginsburg's last case before the Supreme Court as an attorney. Part of her argument was that making jury duty optional for women should be struck down because it treated women's service on juries as less valuable than men's, and also discriminated against men who enjoyed no such exemption.[2]