Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC, Docket No. 16-712

Seventh Amendment: Jury trial: Art. III Court:
 

The Seventh Amendment preserves the “right of trial by jury” in “Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars.” This Court’s precedents establish that, when Congress properly assigns a matter to adjudication in a non-Article III tribunal, “the Seventh Amendment poses no independent bar to the adjudication of that action by a nonjury factfinder.” Granfinanciera, S. A. v. Nordberg, 492 U. S. 33, 53–54 (1989); accord, Atlas Roofing Co., at 450–455. No party challenges or attempts to distinguish those precedents. Thus, our rejection of Oil States’ Article III challenge also resolves its Seventh Amendment challenge. Because inter partes review is a matter that Congress can properly assign to the PTO, a jury is not necessary in these proceedings.

(U.S.S.C., April 24, 2018, Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC, Docket No. 16-712, J. Thomas)

Le droit à voir sa cause jugée par un Jury, tel que prévu par le Septième Amendement de la Constitution fédérale, ne peut pas être invoqué dans les affaires dont le Congrès a valablement attribué la compétence à une autorité autre qu'une cour au sens de l'Art. III.