Watkins v. New York

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• a Title VIII claim that “sounds basically in tort” is characterized properly as “legal” for purposes of the 7th Amendment
• where both damages and injunctive relief are sought under § 1983, it is error for the court, rather than the jury, to determine facts common to both the equitable and legal claims
• in § 1983 action seeking damages, municipal defendant had right to jury trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).