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 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 ...

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, ...

Dec. 15 is Bill of Rights Day. It was on Dec. 15, 1791, that the first 10 amendments to our U.S. Constitution were ratified ...

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 ...

Recognizing the difference between substantive and procedural rights helps enormously in understanding the battles over applying the first eight amendments of the U.S. Constitution to the states.

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 ...

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 ...