Sentences with phrase «right to jury trial prohibits»

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).

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Doing away with arbitration in this context would prohibit employers from requiring employees or applicants to waive their legal right to a trial by jury in order to work.

For example, in Texas, I've noticed that a lot of agreements prohibit the tenant from withholding rent, whereas in California, tenants have the right to withhold rent and «repair and deduct» (for people in San Francisco who don't necessarily care about their credit, it might be cheaper to pay a retainer than continue paying rent, and under certain circumstances, they practically can not be evicted through a jury trial).

(c) That notwithstanding the Common Law of England, nothing in this Constitution prohibits trial by jury of less than 12 jurors in any civil proceeding in which the right to a jury trial is preserved (amended by Chapters 203, 204, Acts of 1992, ratified Nov. 3, 1992).