The Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in most civil suits that are heard in federal court.
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Seventh Amendment
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.
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Seventh Amendment does not apply in state court
The Seventh Amendment guarantees the right to a jury trial in most civil suits that are heard in federal court. This right is one of the few liberties enumerated in the Bill of Rights that has not been made applicable to the states. The Seventh Amendment does not apply in state court even when a litigant is enforcing a right created by federal law. The rationale of the Seventh Amendment was to preserve the historic line separating the province of the jury from that of the judge in civil cases.
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