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To: steampower

Nearly all states, and the federal government (TX being the notable exception) only allow jury trials in matters of law, not matters of equity. This would be a trial on a matter of equity and thus, in all reasonable likelihood, is not allowed by the FL rules of civil proceedure.

So no one get their hopes up here.


3 posted on 03/25/2005 9:38:56 AM PST by Grn_Lantern
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To: Grn_Lantern

Are you a lawyer? Is this something that could be changed by changing the statute law, or would it be a change to state constitutions? I think the point is valid-- no one person should decide on the life or death of another.


5 posted on 03/25/2005 9:41:30 AM PST by walden
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To: Grn_Lantern

It is not our hopes that we need to get up.

We need to rise up in righteous indignation and demand that the laws be changed.


13 posted on 03/25/2005 9:48:34 AM PST by steampower
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To: Grn_Lantern
Nearly all states, and the federal government (TX being the notable exception) only allow jury trials in matters of law, not matters of equity

What about the seventh amendment? Isn't that about equity? I'm confused.

29 posted on 03/25/2005 1:45:01 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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