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 ...

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 civil jury trial right is complicated. Originalists and non-originalists alike tend to see the text as requiring a historical inquiry, because the right is "preserved" in "suits ...

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 ...

A district court held that the government violated a taxpayer’s Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial in an FBAR case ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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