Comments on: The Financial Challenge of Jury Duty http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: daniel http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-1020043 daniel Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:48:14 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-1020043 Shouldn’t jury duty be paid at federal minimum wage standards. Is there a federal law that exempts paying jurors minimum wage for there work. Even if the state sets jury pay if it’s in conflict with federal law then doesn’t federal law prevail ?

]]> By: Michelle http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-954296 Michelle Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:34:59 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-954296 I live in Arkansas. My situation is that my husband who makes around $129 a day and is on call to repair ATMs for 2 consecutive weeks out of every 4 weeks got the papers to return about jury duty got those papers 3 times in the past year. so we would be LOSING approximately $79 per day and $120 on the paycheck that covers the 2 weeks that he is on call to repair ATMs if he actually went to jury duty. Each time, he sent it back stating that he is an armored car guard and the fact that he is on call for ATM repair for 2 consecutive weeks out of every 4 weeks and ended up being exempted each time, not sure whether it was the armored car guard bit or the ATM bit that did it. The worst thing of this is that I do not work due to physical disabilities (tried working in August 2010 and had to quit due to my physical disabilities after less than a week, tried again in December 2010 and ended up in the hospital for 3 days and having to quit because the doctors could not figure out what caused me to pass out at work but did not want me to try again for fear of a longer hospital stay or worse and now Ticket to Work has also told me to quit trying to work for the same reason!) so a call up to jury duty for me would NET us $50 a day and would not cost us extra because we have no children, just 5 cats and 1 fish that basically only require care twice a day each. With the loss of income if my husband actually went to jury duty, we would not be able to pay our bills or pay for gas for him to get to work once his jury duty ended or pay for food, etc, however, if they were to call me instead, I would gladly attend jury duty (would provide needed mental stimulation and would be within my physical limitations since I would not be asked to move things around or stand for long periods or walk for long periods) and would not be worrying about paying my bills etc because the money for MY jury duty time would be gravy (over and above the money that I need to pay for bills, food, automobile gas, etc). So, it makes no sense that my husband got jury duty papers that many times in such a short period of time when NO ONE ELSE I know even got those papers EVEN ONCE.

]]> By: Kenn http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-939664 Kenn Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:32:22 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-939664 I just wanna say, before I finish reading this. As a resident of Arkansas, I’m looking to see if/what any counties pay for jury duty, but do want to make a note as well. At the time this article was written, I believe minimum wage was just starting to increase from 5.15/hr to 6.25 and eventually now to 7.25/hr to if I recall, “catch up to other states”. If pay was around 50/day during 2008 or even before, most residents would consider themselves lucky to make that.

]]> By: bryan http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-772929 bryan Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:21:13 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-772929 here in washing ton it’s 40 a day and after the 10th day it’s 50, but i would have to drive 133 miles (one way) at the shortest distance and pay for hotels and food even though i don’t have the money in the first place.

]]> By: Sandra http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-585822 Sandra Thu, 07 May 2009 19:30:31 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-585822 oh and I agree with Karen about being able to choose when you wish to serve jury duty. If I could choose I would much prefer school times and after my infant is at least one year old.

]]> By: Sandra http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-585820 Sandra Thu, 07 May 2009 19:25:51 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-585820 I’m in AR. I’m glad to hear we get 50$ LOL…but it still won’t do me a bit of good. I have three young children. 20$ a day per child= 60$. It is 35$ if you aren’t seated but only have to watch. Which sucks even more. It will not cover my daycare costs. What sucks even more on top of our financial hurt is that I exclusively breastfeed my infant. I don’t know how she will do with a bottle. Will she take one? I don’t know. Will she scream and cry because mommy isn’t there to hold her, feed her, play with her. It won’t be the money that bothers me while I’m sitting in the jury box. It will be my worrying about whether or not my baby is crying for her mommy. Can’t say I will give my full attention to court when I have the heart ache of knowing someone else is caring for my little one’s and won’t know how to best take care of my child.

]]> By: Bjahnsen http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-538552 Bjahnsen Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:44:58 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-538552 Tort Reform!

Punitive damages should be put into a special fund to pay jurors instead of being given to plaintiffs. Pay jurors based on their annual incomes with a cap of say $500 per day.

You’ll not only decrease frivolous lawsuits from money-grubbing lawyers but you’ll increase the likelihood of getting a good intelligent jury full of a wide variety of citizens.

]]> By: KATHY http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-491000 KATHY Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:11:16 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-491000 BECAUSE MY HUSBAND HAS TO DUE JURY DUTY THIS WEEK MY KIDS WON’T GET MUCH FOR CHRISTMAS i WAS GOING TO BUY GIFTS WITH THIS WEEKS PAY NOW I WON’T HAVE ANY EXTRA MONEY AND WILL NOT EVEN BE ABLE TO PAY FOR FOOD AND MY HEATING BILL. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO US .

]]> By: Carnival of Personal Finance #150 http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-294153 Carnival of Personal Finance #150 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:03:53 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-294153 [...] Advice writes about the financial challenge of jury duty. When I was a salaried employee this was not an issue. If I were called now it really would impact [...]

]]> By: Jeff http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/04/21/the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-289957 Jeff Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:43:45 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/04/21/102102_the-financial-challenge-of-jury-duty.html#comment-289957 “They should have professional juries in my opinion.”

you’re kidding right?

You won’t think that when you need a fair jury on your side.

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