A group of panelists at the American Constitution Society’s annual convention agreed that jury trials in civil cases, especially in the federal courts, are on the decline. But they disagreed about whether that was a bad thing and how the trend could be reversed.
The panel on Friday was moderated by New York University School of Law Professor Arthur Miller. He cited statistics from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts that, in recent years, fewer than 2 percent of federal actions went to trial and fewer than 1 percent had a jury trial.
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