Challenge For Cause A party's request that the judge dismiss a potential juror from serving on a jury by providing a valid legal reason why he shouldn't serve.
Challenge For Cause
(n) Challenge For Cause is the right available to an attorney to request the removal of a juror for reasons sufficient to stop him from serving as juror in that case.
Challenge for cause: A request by a party that the court excuse a specific juror on the basis that the juror is biased.
Citation: Summons to appear in court. 2. Reference to authorities in support of a legal argument.
challenge for cause - Questioning the qualifications of an entire jury panel, usually on the ground of partiality or some fault in the process of summoning the panel.
chambers - A judge's private office in the courthouse.
Challenge for cause -A request from a party to a judge that a certain prospective juror not be allowed to be a member of a jury because of specified causes or reasons. (Also, see peremptory challenge.) ...
Challenge for Cause: Objection to the seating of a particular juror for a stated reason (usually bias or prejudice for or against one of the parties in the lawsuit). The judge has the discretion to deny the challenge.
CHALLENGE FOR CAUSE: Ask that a potential juror be rejected if it is revealed that for some reason he or she is unable or unwilling to set aside preconceptions and pay attention only to the evidence.
challenge for cause: Reasons that a lawyer gives for removing a juror or judge from a case. (Compare with peremptory challenge.)
chambers: A judge's office. Also usually where the judge's clerks work.
Challenge for Cause - To ask that a member of the jury panel be excused because there appears to be a specific reason, set out in the court rule, that one is not legally qualified to act as a juror in this case.
Challenge for cause
Definition
: a challenge esp. of a prospective juror based on a specific and stated cause or reason
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Challenge for cause
Excusing a juror from a trial for a stated, specific reason, such as the juror knows the parties or witnesses in a case. Each side has an unlimited number of challenges for cause.
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A challenge for cause is a challenge for some particular reason, such as bias or prejudice due to familiarity with one of the parties.
Challenge for cause. For which a reason is assigned, - to the array or to the polls. Challenge for favor. Of the same nature and effect as a principle challenge "propter affectum." Peremptory challenge. For which no reason is assigned.
This challenge is distinguished from a "challenge for cause" (reason) based on the potential juror admitting bias, acquaintanceship with one of the parties or their attorney, personal knowledge about the facts, ...
Peremptory Challenge
A formal objection to a potential juror for which no specific reason is given, unlike a challenge for cause.
Perfection:
An action that has to be taken before a security interest is secured.
Peremptory challenge - Request by a party that a judge not allow a certain prospective juror as a member of the jury. No reason or cause need be stated. (See challenge for cause.) ...
A court may sustain counsel's request to strike a juror for cause, in which case the juror steps aside and another is called. Or a judge may overrule a challenge for cause if a suitable reason has not been sufficiently established.
 See also: Challenge, Cause, Juror, Lawyer, Party
  
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