The right to a civil jury trial is far more deeply rooted in American history and tradition than is the right to own guns, which the Supreme Court was right to incorporate. This coming Thursday, June ...

A jury on Wednesday found a Houston man guilty of killing a civil lawyer during a 2024 shooting at a McDonald's restaurant.

Four years after Austin police officers shot and killed Alex Gonzales Jr., one of those officers – and the city itself – will stand trial for the killing. The trial comes as a result of a civil ...

A jury has been selected in a civil rights lawsuit about a downtown shooting involving Chicago police several years ago.

Equally important, but less revered than voting; jury service is a powerful tool for holding the government accountable. ACLU ...

Pueblo County sheriff’s deputies will face a civil jury trial in November after a deputy shot and killed a man during a confrontation outside of a Pueblo West middle school in February 2022. A federal ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The right to trial by jury in criminal and civil cases is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. It’s also a critically important way in which citizens can participate in democracy.

Right to trial by jury seen as a touchstone of the British justice system, but severe court backlogs may prompt change.

Brooklyn Supreme Court, Civil Term, reopened for trials with many safety preparations Monday. The actual first trial in the state since COVID-19 closed the courts will be heard by State Supreme Court ...

Given Chapter 93A’s broad statutory language, which invariably invites creative pleading and captures conduct that would otherwise fit imprecisely within common-law fraud, contract, or tort doctrines, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Valerie P. Hans, Cornell University and Richard Lorren Jolly, Southwestern Law School ...