In October 1909, Johanna Engleman was summoned to jury duty in California; this was an accident, as she was a woman. Engleman refused to withdraw, and the judge refused to remove her; the defense used a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peremptory_challenge" class="extiw" title="w:peremptory challenge">peremptory challenge</a> to exclude her from the jury, and subsequently won a new trial on the grounds that they had been unfairly forced to waste a peremptory challenge on a woman.
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