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 ...

On November 24, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina denied American Efficient LLC’s ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In SEC v. Jarkesy, Chief Justice Roberts offers the Court's latest opinion on the Seventh Amendment. Although most of the attention will rightly go to the public rights discussion, I want to briefly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew Roberts is a tax attorney who covers tax litigation and fraud. The Seventh Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides ...

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Now that all the politicking is over, and the polls have closed, it’s time to make a better future for all of us. That means whether we are poor or rich, brown, or white, urban or rural. That also, ...