Lockett v. Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the Federal right extends to all suits \whatever may be the peculiar form which they may assume to settle legal rights\
• discussing the unavailability of appellate jurisdiction over the denial of a new trial, which would have required reexamination of the jury's factual findings
• reading federal statute to limit appellate review of jury verdict and thus to preserve Seventh Amendment rights
• describing admiralty as “a mixture of public law, and of maritime law and equity”
• neither admiralty nor equity cases were suits in law within the Seventh Amendment jury provision
• neither admiralty nor equity cases were suits in law within the Seventh Amendment jury provision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).