Jury Duty Question

mandycory · January 2012

Does anyone know the rules about being excused from serving jury duty? I know that nursing mothers can be excused, but I'm wondering about my situation. I run a very small in-home daycare, and I just found out that I'm scheduled for jury duty on 1/25. This is going to mess up so many people's work schedules. This is stressing me out majorly trying to figure out the logistics of this. Not only do I have to find daycare for my own kids, but also try to help out the families that I do daycare for. Does anyone know if there's anything I can do to get out of it?

melgul001 · January 2012

Not sure about getting out of it, but it might be with any other job....it happens? Do you have anyone that can watch all the kids for you while your gone? I"m a back up on my cousins daycare and have ran the daycare the day she had to go for a D&C.

Otherwise another option is to call all your kiddos parents and explain the situation.

This MIGHT have some answers...might be something else online too.

http://www.supremecourt.ne.gov/jury-service/index.shtml

melgul001 · January 2012

Or number 16 here.....

http://lancaster.ne.gov/election/jury/faq.htm

But I just thought, it might be different in your county, this is Lancastor. But I just googled.

njh514 · January 2012

I would think it would be easiest to try to find a replacement for you. Are there any gals on here that may be options?

I would definitely try to call whoever it is that sets this up and at least ask the question. I had a co-worker who was scheduled for jury duty for, like, the first 2 weeks of December. She never once had to go.

Jury duty seems so wishy washy in what little I've seen of it in the last couple of years.

LindsaymR · January 2012

You can delay jury duty. DH used to do snow removal and he was scheduled once in the winter so put in a request to have another date set. Maybe that is an option? It sucks because half the time you go and they tell you to go home anyway! That happened to DH - he wasn't even picked and was there about an hour. But just in case you'll have to plan a replacement for the day.

shannie21 · January 2012

Our DCP was called for it last year and was able to get out of it, but had to give them a date at that time of another time a few months out where she could serve and had to that time...she ended up not getting picked, so it was just a one day thing.

cubluebride · January 2012

shannie21:
Our DCP was called for it last year and was able to get out of it, but had to give them a date at that time of another time a few months out where she could serve and had to that time...she ended up not getting picked, so it was just a one day thing.

This is how it works. You can delay with good reason, but you can't get out of it.

Remember, it's your civic duty Big Smile