Sentences with phrase «7thamendment right to a jury trial»

Stockley, who left the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in 2013 and was arrested lastyear, had waived his right to a jury trial, allowing the judge to decide.

An important aspect of that power of the Constitution is that the Constitution guarantees important rights that Americans cherish (and that you are likely quite aware of such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to a jury trial, etc.),

The state senator accused of slashing his girlfriend's face with a broken glass during an argument waived his right to a jury trial in Queens Supreme Court Monday.

In the event of any legal action arising from or relating to these Terms of Use or your use of the site, you hereby waive the right to a jury trial.

The parties expressly agree that there shall be no jury trial or right to a jury trial, or right to any other proceeding to resolve any Dispute in any court.

25.8 With the exception of your agreement to waive any right to a jury trial or to participate in a class action, if any other provision in this Section 25 is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be fully severable, this Section 25 shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision had never comprised a part of this section, and the remaining provisions of this section shall remain in full force and effect.

You further agree to waive your right to a jury trial in connection with any action or litigation arising out of or related to these Terms.

If for any reason a claim proceeds in court rather than in arbitration you and we each waive any right to a jury trial.

- IF FOR ANY REASON A CLAIM PROCEEDS IN COURT, RATHER THAN IN ARBITRATION, YOU AND WE EACH WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.

IN ARBITRATION, NEITHER PARTY WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL OR TO ENGAGE IN DISCOVERY, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE AAA CODE OF PROCEDURE.

Further, should you reject the Arbitration process (or if a court or federal regulator determine the Arbitration process inapplicable), you agree to waive your right to jury trial and proceed in a non-jury court proceeding.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, by your access to the Sites, you agree that: (i) any claim, dispute or cause of action regarding the Sites or these Terms shall be brought individually (NOT AS PART OF A CLASS ACTION) in the federal or state courts of the State of New York, and, such claim / dispute / cause of action will be resolved by a judge and THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL IS HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVED; (ii) you consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts as the exclusive tribunal for adjudication of any such claim / dispute / cause of action, expressly waiving any right of forum non convenience, change of venue or like right; (iii) your recovery will be limited to actual out - of - pocket costs involved in specifically accessing the Sites (if any) and you expressly waive your right to all other forms of recovery, including by way of example only, punitive, consequential, indirect, incidental, special and exemplary damages as well as attorneys» fees for bringing such claim / dispute / cause of action; and (iv) the court shall apply the law of the State of New York in adjudicating any such claim / dispute / cause of action, except for the choice of law / conflict of law rules of the State of New York (or of any other jurisdiction which would result in the application of the law of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York).

You have a right to a jury trial for a traffic ticket in Texas if the fine is more than 20 dollars, and unless you waive that right, they have to provide it for you.

If you do sign something waiving your right to a jury trial, you could possibly take defensive driving, ask the court for deferred adjudication, or anything else the judge wants to let you do.

A recent decision of Mew J., provides an excellent, comprehensive, summary of the law on civil jury trials including the law pertaining to the fundamental right to a jury trial and a detailed discussion of the law pertaining to a judge's discretion to strike a jury notice.

In addition, you probably agreed to pay their collection costs, interest, and you may have waived your right to a jury trial.

You do not have a right to a jury trial in workers compensation.

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He leads the largest plaintiff legal organization in the State which fights for plaintiffs» rights and preserving the right to jury trials.

«It is clear that, wherever the right - to - counsel line is to be drawn, it must be drawn so that an indigent has a right to appointed counsel in all cases in which there is a due process right to a jury trial.»

In California, tenants facing eviction have a right to a jury trial.

in Argersinger, the Court today retreats to the indefensible position that the Argersinger «actual imprisonment» standard is the only test for determining the boundary of the Sixth Amendment right to appointed counsel in state misdemeanor cases, thus necessarily deciding that, in many cases (such as this one), a defendant will have no right to appointed counsel even when he has a constitutional right to a jury trial.

For substantially the reasons stated by MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN in Parts I and II of his dissenting opinion, I would hold that the right to counsel secured by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments extends at least as far as the right to jury trial secured by those Amendments.

«Imagine my surprise when I discovered that my dues to the Kentucky Bar Association were being used, not only to heap insults on a significant segment of our membership — those of us who represent the injured — but also to take a pro-business position on tort reform to deprive the citizens in this Commonwealth of their constitutional right to a jury trial for their injury claims.»

Even a very incomplete list gives an impression of the large number of significant opinions he has written: seminal administrative law cases such as Chevron v. NRDC and Massachusetts v. EPA, the intellectual property case Sony Corp v. Universal City Studios (which made clear that making individual videotapes of television programs did not constitute copyright infringement), important war on terror precedents such as Rasul v. Bush and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, important criminal law cases such as Padilla v. Kentucky (holding that defense counsel must inform the defendant if a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation) and Atkins v. Virginia (which reversed precedent to hold it was unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on the mentally retarded), and of course Apprendi v. New Jersey (which revolutionized criminal sentencing by holding that the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibited judges from enhancing criminal sentences beyond statutory maximums based on facts other than those decided by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt).

This decision continues the recent Court of Appeals trend chipping away at the ability of trial judges to take away the plaintiff's constitutional right to jury trial.

Is it within the bounds of the Constitution to punish individuals with higher sentences because they decide they want to use their constitutional right to a jury trial?

For instance, the majority said the legislature had modified the common - law right to a jury trial in workers» comp and no - fault insurance laws.

«Second, there are the numerous statutory limits on jury trials, such as workers» compensation, no - fault auto claims, state tort claims acts and the like, which remove the right to jury trial altogether or limit the damages that can be awarded,» he says.

Federal criminal lawyers are faced with defending their people in a court where the «Constitutional right» to a trial is but a shadow of what a meaningful right to jury trial once was.

This position ensures that the right to a jury trial will endure as a core constitutional value.

The Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases.

The Court's holding in Blakely extends a line of recent cases exploring the meaning of the right to a jury trial and establishes a readily understood principle for deciding what the right means and when it is being eroded.

In short, Pynchon concludes, parties to disputes need to realize that with the shift to more arbitrations, their right to a jury trial has already been eliminated in many cases.

In her dissenting opinion, Circuit Judge Pauline Newman offers an interesting historical review of the right to a jury trial on these sorts of factual issues.

Some leases may have you waive your right to a jury trial in a personal injury lawsuit against a landlord.

Oil States also argues that since the eighteenth century, actions challenging the validity of issued patents have been decided by courts of law, and thus the patent owner's right to a jury trial is preserved under the Seventh Amendment.

At the very least, the public must be made aware that it is slowly but surely losing a precious right that our Founding Fathers fought to embrace and preserve — the right to a jury trial or any trial at all.

«[T] he right to a jury trial confers important societal and individual benefits, and it is a right that should be relinquished only knowingly and voluntarily — not gradually and quietly.»

According to Baldwin v. New York (1970), «the federal right to jury trial attaches where an offense is punishable by as much as six months» imprisonment» (1).

There is no constitutional right to a jury trial for criminal contempt charges resulting in a sentence of imprisonment of six months or less.

Defendant Arpaio acknowledges that there is no constitutional right to a jury trial for defendants charged with «petty» offenses where the maximum sentence does not exceed six months imprisonment,

but continues the argument (the point being that there is no question that there is no absolute right to a jury trial, esp.

With respect to the first question, the Court of Appeal noted, as per Legroulx v. Pitre, 2009 ONCA 760 (CanLII) at para. 5, that the Charter does not confer a right to a jury trial in civil matters.

Counsel for death row inmate in successful argument before Fifth Circuit that new trial should be granted for violation of Sixth Amendment right to jury trial.

In a 7 - 2 opinion authored by Associate Justice Thomas, the Court rejected Oil States» contention that the IPR process violated the separation of powers of Article III and a patent owner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial on the question of patent validity.

If charged with a felony, you have the right to a jury trial.

In dozens of cases following Concepción, mandatory arbitration clauses waiving the right to a jury trial and class action have been upheld in everything from cell phone service to auto sales and even employment agreements.

In some states, if a lease says you have waived your right to a jury trial in a personal injury lawsuit, that clause could be found void.

Formed in 1957 to protect the right to jury trial and to advance trial advocacy skills, ABOTA is the foremost trial organization in the United States for both the plaintiff and the defense bars.