Systematic exclusion of women from jury service on the basis of having to register for jury duty violates a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Decided January 21, 1975 (argued October 16, 1974). Opinion of the Court: Byron White → go there Dissenting: Rehnquist. Applied: the Fourteenth Amendment → go there Topic: Discrimination based on sex. Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975), is a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court which held that systematically excluding women from a venire, or jury pool, by requiring (only) them to actively register for jury duty violated the defendant's right to a representative venire. The court overturned Hoyt v. Florida, the 1961 case that had allowed such a practice. Wiki link