28 U.S.C. § 1411 — Jury trials
submitted 42 years ago by Pub. L. 98-353 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 64 words · no verdicts yet
Title 11 and this chapter preserve an individual’s jury-trial right for personal-injury or wrongful-death tort claims under nonbankruptcy law. The district court may order issues arising under section 303 of title 11 tried without a jury.
(a) Except as subsection (b) provides, this chapter and title 11 do not affect an individual’s right under applicable nonbankruptcy law to a jury trial concerning a personal-injury or wrongful-death tort claim.
(b) The district court* may order issues arising under section 303 of title 11 to be tried without a jury.
Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this chapter and title 11 do not affect any right to trial by jury that an individual has under applicable nonbankruptcy law with regard to a personal injury or wrongful death tort claim.
The district court* may order the issues arising under section 303 of title 11 to be tried without a jury.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 98–353, title I, § 102(a), July 10, 1984, 98 Stat. 335.)
- 1984Enacted · Pub. L. 98-353 · 98 Stat. 335
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