The Seventh Amendment to the Constitution is straightforward. It was the seventh amendment of the Bill of Rights. Those rights were ratified by the states in about two years of the original ...

The Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial puts significant limits on administrative adjudications, but defendants may waive that right ...

From the founding of our country, the 7th Amendment to the United States Constitution has guaranteed every American the right to have a jury decide civil disputes. Unbeknownst to most Americans, ...

Last year the Supreme Court issued a major Second Amendment decision striking down New York’s century-old handgun licensing statute. States across the country face years of litigation against gun ...

Paul G. Summers, a lawyer, is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the ...

The Seventh Amendment provides a right to trial by jury in most civil cases conducted in federal court. It doesn’t apply to state courts, but many state constitutions confer the same right. Very few ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear the first of two landmark cases this term challenging the runaway administrative state. At stake in SEC v. Jarkesy is a bedrock constitutional principle ...

The Bill of Rights has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at how they relate to society ...

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George Jarkesy's Case for the Seventh Amendment The Supreme Court considers the constitutional right to trial by jury, in a case that involves a $300,000 fine issued via an administrative process at ...