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Bankruptcy Law's Treatment of Creditors' Jury-Trial and Arbitration Rights
Ware, Stephen J.
Ware, Stephen J.
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Abstract
Bankruptcy law treats the constitutional jury right with less deference than the, merely statutory, right to arbitrate. But this apparent anomaly is actually the plausible result of a limitation within the Seventh Amendment jury right, its applicability only to claims at law but not claims in equity. The right to arbitrate is not similarly limited. So creditors seeking to arbitrate claims by and against debtors in bankruptcy are not defeated by longstanding holdings placing such claims on the equity side of the law/equity line. In contrast, creditors seeking jury trials of claims by and against debtors in bankruptcy are defeated by such holdings.
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2009
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St. John's School of Law & American Bankruptcy Institute
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Bankruptcy, Jury, Arbitration
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Stephen J. Ware, Bankruptcy Law's Treatment of Creditors' Jury-Trial and Arbitration Rights, 17 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 479-492 (2009).