GUEST LECTURESJ MOTION Follow up

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GUEST LECTURE-SJ MOTION Follow up

• Fed Ct SJ Motion Stephenson v. USA
• Motion for Reconsideration
• Discovery issue
• Request for admission
• Admit didnt inform pl. that 2/5/87 barium enema
  revealed polyp
• Response
• US cant reasonably determine
• Given response, can def create gimf
• Declarations from MDs about usual practice

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WHERE WE ARE WHAT WERE DOING

• Pleading
• Pre-trial
• Trial Post-trial
• Identifying the trier judge or jury
• Appeal

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IDENTIFYING THE TRIER

• Judges
• Bias Recusal
• Judges v. Juries
• Right to jury trial
• Juries/Jurors
• 6 v. 12 persons
• Unanimity
• Peremptory challenges

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALWho cares?

• Judges v. Juries
• Right to jury trial
• Who cares?
• Jury nullification

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALWho cares?

• Chauffers, etc. v. Terry, p. 670
• Why did union bother to appeal?
• Repeat players
• Marc Galanter, Why the "Haves" Come Out
  AheadSpeculation on the Limits of Legal Change,
  9 Law Soc'y Rev. 95 (1974)

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALThe Constitutional Text

• Amendment VII
• In Suits at common law . . . the right of trial
  by jury shall be preserved

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALThe Doctrinal Interpretation

• Black Letter Law
• Jury trial if available in 1791
• -Right-
• Nature of issue to be tried
• Remedy
• Nature of issue
• analogous cause of action
• existed in 18th century
• Prior to merger of law equity

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALConstitutional Interpretation

• Cf.
• Statutory interpretation
• Protocols
• Constitutional interpretation
• Text, history, traditions

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALConstitutional Interpretation

• The role of history
• Originalism v. non-originalism

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALConstitutional Interpretation

• The Problems with Originalism
• Social technological change
• Who could predict
• Values
• Linguistics
• Indeterminacy the hermeneutic

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALConstitutional Interpretation

• Support for Originalism
• Texts history
• Assumption they provide an answer
• Judicial discretion
• Urge to fetter it

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALThe Historical Test

• Amoco Oil Co. v. Torcomian, p. 685
• Plaintiffs
• Ejectment law/jury
• Injunction x 2 equity/no jury
• Lost profits law/no jury
• Mesne profits, etc. equity/no jury
• Defendants
• Injunction equity/no jury
• Lost profits law/jury
• Unless clean-up doctrine damages equity

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALThe Historical Test

• P. 691, note 6
• a. Pl seeks injunction
• Def denies allegations
• No jury equitable claim

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALThe Historical Test

• P. 691, note 6
• b. Pl seeks injunction
• Def seeks constructive trust
• No jury
• equitable claim
• equitable counterclaim

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALThe Historical Test

• P. 691, note 6
• c. Pl seeks injunction
• Def counterclaims for damages
• Jury
• Cf. Torcomian

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALHistorical Test

• Complications
• New claims
• New procedures
• Merger of law equity
• Broad joinder of claims
• Beacon Theaters
• Potential for recharacterizing claims
• Dairy Queen

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALTakeaways

• Big picture
• Why we care about jury trials
• Constitutional interpretation
• Historical tests originalism

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RIGHT TO JURY TRIALTakeaways

• Black Letter Law
• Jury trial if available in 1791
• Right
• Nature of issue to be tried
• Remedy
• Nature of issue
• analogous cause of action
• existed in 18th century
• Prior to merger of law equity