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Article: NURSING MOMS CAN AVOID JURY SERVICE
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- June 21, 2005
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Salem Sheriff Roger Surber doesn't remember who took the call, but
the woman's request was urgent: Answering her call to civic duty
would interfere with the new mother's ability to breast-feed.
She was excused from jury duty. That was a few years ago, when
nursing mothers had to plead the inconvenience of jury service.
But beginning July 1, Virginia will become the seventh state to
exempt breast-feeding mothers from sitting in judgment of their peers
in a courtroom.
Breast-feeding moms in Virginia will get a pass, joining - among
others - those over 70, mariners performing maritime service and
caregivers for a disabled person. Virginia law already exempts
parents of children younger than 16 ...