Colgrove v. Battin
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{{Infobox SCOTUS case
|Litigants=Colgrove v. Battin
|ArgueDate=January 17
|ArgueYear=1973
|DecideDate=June 21
|DecideYear=1973
|FullName=Colgrove v. Battin
|USVol=413
|USPage=149
|ParallelCitations=93 S. Ct. 2448; 37 L. Ed. 2d 522; 1973 U.S. LEXIS 42; 17 Fed. R. Serv. 2d (Callaghan) 401
|Prior=
|Subsequent=
|Holding=A six-member
jury for the trial of civil cases comports with the Seventh Amendment.
|Majority=Brennan
|JoinMajority=Burger, White, Blackmun, Rehnquist
|Dissent=Douglas
|JoinDissent=Powell
|Dissent2=Marshall
|JoinDissent2=Stewart
|Dissent3=Powell
|LawsApplied=
}}
Colgrove v. Battin, 413 U.S. 149 (1973), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled 5-4 that six person civil juries were constitutional.Yeazell, S.C. Civil Procedure, Seventh Edition. Aspen Publishers, New York, NY: 2008, p. 600
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External links
- [http://supreme.justia.com/us/413/149/case.html Full text of the opinion at Justia.com]
Category:United States civil procedure case law
Category:United States Supreme Court cases
Category:1973 in United States case law
Category:United States Seventh Amendment case law
Category:United States jury case law
Category:United States Supreme Court cases of the Burger Court
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