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Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg, 492 U.S. 33 (1989), is a 1989 United States Supreme Court case concerning the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.In a majority opinion by William J. Brennan, Jr., the Court held that the Seventh Amendment guaranteed individuals the right to a jury trial if they are sued by a bankruptcy trustee seeking the recovery of an allegedly fraudulent ...
By its text, the Seventh Amendment guarantees that in “[s]uits at common law, . . . the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.” In construing this language, we have noted that the right is not limited to the “common-law forms of action recognized” when the Seventh Amendment was ratified. Curtis v. Loether, 415 U. S. 189, 193 (1974 ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The state of Oklahoma is violating federal law by unnecessarily committing people with mental illness and drug abuse disorders to psychiatric hospitals, the U.S. Justice ...
First Amendment American Booksellers Ass'n, Inc. v. Hudnut , 771 F.2d 323 (7th Cir. 1985), [ 1 ] aff'd mem., 475 U.S. 1001 (1986), was a 1985 court case that successfully challenged the constitutionality of the Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance , as enacted in Indianapolis , Indiana the previous year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington has reached such a conclusion about ...
Seventh Amendment right to jury trials in bankruptcy proceedings Penry v. Lynaugh: 492 U.S. 302 (1989) Eighth Amendment permits executing the mentally retarded; overruled by Atkins v. Virginia: Stanford v. Kentucky: 492 U.S. 361 (1989) Eighth Amendment permits executing offenders who were 16 or 17 years old at the time of the offense; overruled ...
DoorDash said the decision "rightly recognized how this law would have violated bedrock First Amendment rights of how we protect New Yorkers' data," while Grubhub said it "reinforces the privacy ...