The Seventh Amendment, passed by the First Congress without debate, cured the omission by declaring that the right to a jury trial shall be preserved in common law cases, thus leaving the ...

At her confirmation hearing yesterday, Second Circuit nominee Eunice C. Lee had surprising difficulty answering some elementary questions posed by Senator Tom Cotton about civil litigation. In ...

In a First Amendment case over press access to new court filings, a Seventh Circuit panel on Tuesday ruled that federal courts lack jurisdiction over such matters and refused to follow the circuit’s ...