Amendment7Jury

__Amendment 7: Trial by Jury__ 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.
 * //__By: John C, Holt N, and Stefano L-B__//**


 * __Analysis__**

The seventh amendment says that if a controversy exceeds twenty dollars then it has the right to request a jury. Petitioners brought a law suit to the federal court against the directors of their closed-end investment company and sued the Lehman Brothers Corporation.


 * __Ross vs. Bernhard__**

Petitioners contended that the Lehman Brothers controlled the corporation through an illegally large representation on the corporation's board of directors, in violation of the Investment Company Act of 1940.The directors of the corporation were accused of converting corporate assets and of gross abuse of trust, gross misconduct, willful misfeasance, bad faith, and gross negligence. We hold that the right to jury trial attaches to those issues in derivative actions as to which the corporation, if it had been suing in its own right, would have been entitled to a jury, The Seventh Amendment preserves to litigants the right to jury trial in suits at common law -- "not merely suits, which the //common// law recognized among its old and settled proceedings, but suits in which //legal// rights were to be ascertained and determined, in contradistinction to those where equitable rights alone were recognized, and equitable remedies were administered. . . . In a just sense, the amendment then may well be construed to embrace all suits which are not of equity and admiralty jurisdiction, whatever may be the peculiar form which they may assume to settle legal rights."


 * __Application: How does/could this amendment impact my real life?__**

If we didn't have the seventh ammendment, people who get tried for crimes they didn't commit would be in quite a bit of trouble. If these certain lawsuits would be answered to by one person, the judge, if it were not for the jury that is allowed. The jury helps people in a court get down to what the people think should happen. The jury is made up of real everyday people picked up from their daily lives. It's almost completely fair, unless someone involoved in the case happens to slip in the jury. So thie jury is the way that we find out what should happen in cases... according to the people. 
 * __Sources:__**


 * http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569008_8/Constitution_of_the_United_States.html
 * http://supreme.justia.com/us/396/531/case.html
 * http://www.lawforwa.org/zbento/homepage/images/jury.jpg
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