Amendment VII

Civil Jury Trials

The text

"In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."

In plain language

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The Seventh Amendment preserves the right to a jury in many civil (non-criminal) federal cases and limits how a judge may overturn a jury's findings of fact.

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