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pranavjoneja · 2021-10-05 05:14:57

This is a civil case. Juries are only for criminal cases.

killingtime74 | karma 1724 | avg karma 1.7 · | 2021-07-19 22:23:28

Depends on country. Very few civil trials involve juries in Australia for example

IdoRA | karma 136 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2021-10-05 05:45:20

Juries are common in civil trials in the US.

kasdi | karma 23 | avg karma 0.44 · | 2023-11-21 17:02:55

Isn’t this is a jury trial?

harryh | karma 13836 | avg karma 3.21 · | 2013-10-24 03:55:36

Juries.

bluedanieru | karma 2574 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2012-08-31 12:49:20+00:00

They aren't juries, they're judges. Lay judges.

E6300 | karma 213 | avg karma 1.08 · | 2017-02-02 17:23:13+00:00

I didn't know the US had juries even in civil cases. That seems a bit effed.

adgjlsfhk1 | karma 4911 | avg karma 2.11 · | 2022-08-08 23:33:34

In civil cases, juries often are in charge of determining damages.

beedogs | karma 4173 | avg karma 2.68 · | 2014-09-15 22:33:18

It was a jury trial.

citizenkeen | karma 1647 | avg karma 4.98 · | 2022-07-25 11:50:10

Yes, there is a jury.

tialaramex | karma 26322 | avg karma 2.85 · | 2019-08-07 17:46:03+00:00

Juries are completely inappropriate tools for the job of deciding civil trials. Like lots of things that are crazy in the US the Americans did it as a perverse imitation of how England did it back when they became independent.

Today nobody else does this, England for example only really uses jury trial to decide serious criminal cases (for minor stuff there isn't a professional judge at all, a panel of lay magistrates decides, they mostly seem disappointed rather than angry - like parents whose teenager was caught smoking).

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paulgb | karma 25596 | avg karma 5.84 · | 2019-02-23 01:53:28+00:00

I'm curious about another root problem: why are corporate civil cases heard by a jury in the first place? Never mind that juries are bound to be influenced when billions of dollars are at stake[1], how about the fact that these cases are both technically and legally complex?

I'm not an expert in this stuff but as far as I can tell the USA is unique in allowing juries to hear this sort of trial, even among countries with a right to jury in a criminal trial.

1. E.g. the Samsung skating rink in front of the Marshall Texas courthouse

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cultofmetatron | karma 2892 | avg karma 2.36 · | 2020-03-16 15:26:20

I don't think they have juries in civil suits

cestith | karma 2277 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2017-05-22 19:15:35+00:00

But juries are selected locally.

btilly | karma 52813 | avg karma 4.93 · | 2012-08-24 18:42:49

The USA is unusual in having juries used for a broader spectrum of cases than other countries.

I agree that this particular type of case should not be decided by jury.

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JoeAltmaier | karma 27896 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2015-12-04 15:59:28+00:00

Juries are weird. Supposed to inject mercy into the system, right? They are your 'peers' and supposed to know better than the lawyers about your situation. Deliberately not experts in law, and not supposed to be. I'm not sure 'impartiality' and legal information are what Juries are about.

oblio | karma 25694 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2022-01-30 06:20:32

In jurisdictions with juries. It's judges, otherwise.

buttercraft | karma 338 | avg karma 3.38 · | 2023-08-28 16:54:25

Judges and juries

Jenk | karma 3359 | avg karma 4.9 · | 2022-01-30 05:38:02

Juries are the ultimate arbiter of law application. For this very reason.

TedDoesntTalk | karma 7450 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2022-12-22 01:32:55

Different juries and lawyers?