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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