trial by jury
Arbitration Clauses: The Slow Silent Death of Equal Justice Under Law
Arbitration Clauses: The Slow Silent Death of Equal Justice Under Law Over the lintel of the U.S. Supreme Court are these words: Equal Just Under Law. That’s the cherished hope and the dream of a fair and impartial judicial system, namely, that blind lady holding the scales of justice. Yet, those hopes and dreams are more…
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How You Could Be Signing Away Your Right to Trial by Jury Without Knowing
How You Could Be Signing Away Your Right to Trial by Jury Without Knowing The right to trial by jury is vital to our country’s legal system. Our founding fathers revered the right to jury trial. It was cited in the Declaration of Independence and in three separate places in the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately,…
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The Civil Jury Trial: The Anchor of Liberty
The Civil Jury Trial: The Anchor of Liberty Thomas Jefferson, certainly no small participant in writing up our Constitution, called the right to jury trial “the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.” Sir William Blackstone, writing about our Common…
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A Call To Support Your Seventh Amendment Right
ABOTA, the American Board of Trial Advocates, recently launched the Save Our Juries website. SaveOurJuries.org‘s mission is to “uphold the jury system provided by the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by educating the American public about the current issues, the history and the value of the right to trial by jury” according to the…
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Trial By Jury
Trial By Jury “For almost eight centuries trial by jury remains the best, safest, surest and perhaps the only bulwark to protect the basic rights of the average citizen. It is still the ‘Lamp of Liberty’ and it must be preserved.” The Case for the Jury System (1969) Joseph T. Karcher As Americans, we take…
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