Seventh Amendment

American  

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing trial by jury.

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Seventh Amendment

Justice Neil M. Gorsuch struggled with constitutional issues involved in having people lose property interests or the Seventh Amendment right to a trial without agreeing to it.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

As Kagan put it on Wednesday, quoting major precedent, the Seventh Amendment “is no bar to the creation of new rights or to their enforcement outside the regular courts of law.”

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2023

While the Seventh Amendment protects one's right to a jury trial in civil cases involving large sums of money damages, New York State precedent maintains that disgorgement is equitable.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2023

The Seventh Amendment limits the ability of judges to reconsider questions of fact, rather than of law, that were originally decided by a jury.

From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021

The right to a jury trial in lawsuits is enshrined in the Seventh Amendment.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2020