On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:48:13PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On May 17, 2004, at 19:10, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > >IIRC, jury trials are only a Constitutional right where *criminal* > >proceedings are concerned, not for civil suits. > > Amendment VII > > 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 reexamined in any court of the > United States, than according to the rules of the common law. Amen! Don't you bastards make me quote Che Guevara and James Madison in the same message! -- G. Branden Robinson | You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory branden@debian.org | test would pass it just fine. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Ethan Benson
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