Serious Personal Injury Lawyer and the Constitutional Right to Jury Trial

As a Serious Personal Injury Lawyer representing seriously injured Hoosiers all over the State of Indiana from our Indianapolis offices, I see, everyday, people with agendas, trying to take away one of your constitutional rights.  These are the same people who claim they adore the Constitution.  These are the people who vigorously defend the intent of the Founding Fathers when it comes to Freedom of Religion, Right to Bear Arms and a few other of our Constitutional rights.  I ask you, how can these people defend the intent of the Founding Fathers about some rights and bash them on others?          

It may surprise you to know that the Founding Fathers thought so highly of a citizen’s right to ask a jury to determine fair compensation for their injuries, whether to their person, their property, their intellectual rights and so on, that they wrote the seventh amendment into the Bill of Rights.  The Seventh Amendment  states: 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.

So why are our legislators infringing that right.  Did you know that in securities cases arbitration is mandatory and the Right to a Trial by Jury is almost impossible.  Did you know that there is a current effort by some special interest groups to abolish the right to trial by jury?

 A serious personal injury to a wage earner is often times the most important event in that person’s life as well as the lives of their family. Broken bones, brain injury, paralysis and even wrongful death can devastate the welfare of that family unit.  Requiring the negligent individual or corporation to fully make up for the harm they have caused is the right of the injured, as well as the taxpayer who will have to care for the person and the family if the responsible party does not meet their obligations. A Trial by Jury, as our Founding Fathers knew, is that check and balance which we all call fairness. Do not let anyone take that right from you, or from us!