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\F3\CSTANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305
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\F1\CApril 14, 1975



Clerk of the Municipal Court
270 Grant Avenue
Palo Alto, California

Dear Sir:

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I just received  another Jury Summons and am again asking to be  excused.
On March 5, 1975 I was called for Jury duty. I had explained in a letter
that I would like a postponment of my  service. Since circumstances
have  not changed here is part of that letter:

"I hereby wish  to ask for  a postponment of  my jury duty.  Besides my
regular employment here  at Stanford, I have been hired as a temporary
assistant professor  at San  Jose  State University.  I was  hired  to
develop  and  teach  a  new   graduate  course  in  their  mathematics
department.  I am currently teaching this course  and will be doing so
until the middle of June.  

I  was  hired  because  the
faculty believed  that there was no one  presently in their department
who was qualified. 
Thus there would be significant hardship placed  on
the students of the  class -- approximately forty, some  of whom need
the material to receive their Master's degree; and the faculty members
who are  attending my  course to  develop their  proficiency would  be
seriously set back. Since there is no one who could substitute for me,
their Master's program would suffer. "

My request was turned down. I appeared and was rejected as a juror.
What was more disturbing was that I had to postpone a take-home examination
for a week because I had no way of knowing whether I would be available to
my students.

I am thus again asking to be excused from jury duty. My situation has not changed;
it is only later in the semester and  more hectic and hurried.
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Yours sincerely,



John R. Allen
Research Associate
Computer Science Dept
Artificial Intelligence Lab

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