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Jury Trial
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A Lawyer Writes
Pull every lever
A few hours before peers begin debating the government’s Courts and Tribunals Bill this afternoon, the House of Lords justice and home affairs committee will ask the courts minister Sarah…
Legal History Blog
FedSoc Webinar on Criminal Justice and the Declaration
By Dan Ernst
The Federalist Society will livestream a webinar on October 28, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, entitled The Founders’ Indictment: Our Criminal Justice System Through the Lens of the Declaration: As…
A Lawyer Writes
A pick-and-mix approach?
The government has explained why it has rejected some of the key recommendations made by Lord Leveson of Liverpool in his independent review of the criminal courts. Part 1 of…
A Lawyer Writes
The jury’s back
The government has backed down on plans to remove the right to jury trial in cases where a defendant in England and Wales would not be expected to receive a…
California Appellate Report
People v. Singh (Cal. Ct. App. – Sept. 14, 2026)
By Shaun Martin
Particularly after the Supreme Court's 2026 opinion in Ellingburg v. United States, it's far from frivolous to argue that restitution payments are penalties and hence criminal defendants have a right to…
inversecondemnation.com
CA5: Property Owner Properly Asked For Jury Trial, So He Gets One
Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's opinion in Ramirez v. City of Texas City, No. 25-40475 (Sep. 3, 2026), in which the court concluded that…
Legal History Blog
Gomez-Arostegui on Patent-Infringement and the Right to a Jury Trial
By Dan Ernst
Tomas Gomez-Arostegui, Lewis & Clark Law School, has posted Patent-infringement Actions in the Eighteenth Century and the Right to a Jury Trial:This Article offers a wide-ranging reappraisal of patent-infringement litigation in…
Consumer Finance Monitor
Seventh Circuit Upholds FDIC’s Use of In-House Enforcement Proceedings After “Close and Challenging” Constitutional Analysis
By Scott A. Coleman, Beau Hurtig, Alan S. Kaplinsky
In a closely watched decision with potentially significant implications for federal banking enforcement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has upheld the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s authority…
A Lawyer Writes
Burnham listens
At six o’clock last Friday morning, when my most recent newsletter was published, we were still waiting to hear what Andy Burnham was planning to do about his predecessor’s plan…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Split Fifth Circuit Panel Holds That A Vape Manufacture Had a Seventh Amendment Right to a Jury Trial in an HHS Action to Collect Civil Penalties
In Texas Tobacco Barn v. HHS, No. 25-60200 (5th Cir. June 30, 2026), a 2-1 panel holds that a manufacturer of vape products was entitled to a jury trial in…