>>what do they do about compensation in the US for jury duty. If you are self employed etc.
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>>I was once selected here in the UK but managed to get out of it. Mainly because it would have cost me a lot of money.
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>>At the moment the daily loss of earnings compensation is £32.47 for the first 10 days and then £64.95 from day 11 to day 200.
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>I was called to jury duty about 2 years ago, made the case (on line in reply to summons) that I was self employed and it would be a financial hardship and was immediately excused. (there went my $12 a day)

I got stuck on a jury for almost 2 weeks a couple of years ago, and financial hardship was rejected :(

It was a civil suit (against Wal-Mart).