“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 re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.” The Seventh Amendment of the United States Constitution protects an individual’s right to a jury trial in federal civil cases. As Carrington (1990) explains, the Seventh Amendment was created as a check on the power of the...