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Amendment 7

im suits at common law,where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to rules of the common law. All citizens have the right to trial by jury in case where they go to court to settle disputes about money or property. Consider The Alternatives - the blood fued, prevalent in early English history: if someones hurt or killed a member of a family, that family took revenge by hurting or killing someone from the killer's family Then that family would take revenge, and so on. This cycle would last for years, until there was no one to rememberthe original cause. - The hue and crying, from the same period: A villager went about town crying out (truthfully or not) that someone had wronged him. People of the village got together, found the accused person, and killed him or her on the spot. - The cold-weather ordeal: in old English law,accused people were tied up, then thrown into a river. if they floated, they were guilty. If the drowned, they were innocent (though dead). -Ordeal by fire: Wealthier accused people in thirteenth- century England would have to walk barefoot and blindfolded over red hot pieces of iron. If theie wounds healed quickly, they were innocent. -Repeating an oath: Twelve of your friends would have to swear you were innocent, repeating a complex oath many times. If any of them made a mistake, it was considered a sign that you were guilty. -Trail by battle: The accused would fight the accuser with fists or axes. They believed that god would spare the one who wastelling the truth .( You could hire someone to do your fighting for you.) - Decision by judge: One judge listened to all the evidence and settled all disputes,often according to whim or his own interests. Types of Civil Trials The common image of a trial implies a crime. But there are plenty of other reasons why people go to court. For various reasons,the number of noncriminal cases is increasing. These are just some of endless number of disputes that come beofore a civil jury: - people injured in accidents who can't agree with their insurance companies on a fair settlement -people who sue resturant for serving coffee that's too hot and burns them - property owners who sue tenants for rent owed -patients who sue a doctor for malpractice, or possible mistakes in medical treatment people who have been badly injured by unsafe products, and sue the manufacturers for injuries caused by these products - a company that sues the maker of a burglar alarmthat failed to go off when burglars arrived -arguments over land- who owns what -workers who sue employers for injuries cause by unsafe conditions on the job -people who sue a magazine for libel, that is, for publishing information that damages their reputation - people suing companies that made their buildings with asbestos, a material now known to cause cancer -smokers who sue cigarette companies claiming that their products caused ill health or death -minorities who have been discriminated against by business or government -families contesting a dead person's will - neighbrhood disputes who's who on the jury -strauder vs. West Virginia -Thiel vs Southern Pacific Company -Hernandez vs Texas - Taylor vs Louisiana

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