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The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' to the [[United States Constitution]] states:

The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' to the [[United States Constitution]] states:

{{cquote|'''In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a [[jury]], shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.'''}}

{{cquote|In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a [[jury]], shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.}}

 

The Seventh Amendment has been interpreted by a number of court cases.  In ''[[Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc.]]'', 518 U.S. 415 (1996), the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] upheld an award of compensatory damages against a claim that it was excessive under [[New York]] law.  The Court ruled that appellate review of a federal trial court's refusal to set aside a jury verdict as excessive is reconcilable with the Seventh Amendment if "appellate control [is] limited to review for 'abuse of discretion.'" ''Id.'' at 419. In ''[[Weisgram v. Marley Co.]]'', 528 U.S. 440 (2000), a unanimous [[U.S. Supreme Court]]  held that federal trial and appellate courts have the authority to decide, as a matter of law, that judgment should be entered in favor of a verdict loser after unreliable and inadmissible expert testimony is excluded.

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[[Category : Seventh Amendment]]

[[Category : Seventh Amendment]]

[[Category : Bill of Rights]]

[[Category : Bill of Rights]]