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



Juries are common in civil trials in the US.


> 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.

7th amendment says otherwise.




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