Islami v. Needham’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “The six-person jury statutes (see G.L.c. 218, §19A [Worcester County], and §19B [Essex County]) were intended to reduce the inefficiencies, both to the parties and the judicial system, inherent in a system of multiple trials of the same action. In a pleading where no court is mentioned other than the District Court, we interpret a jury demand to he a claim to a District Court trial by a jury of six (provided that one is available). It follows that, in the instant case, the plaintiff did not make a claim of jury trial in the Superior Court, and that any claim he may have made for trial by a jury of six in the District Court was waived by his proceeding to a bench trial of the claim, without objection. See Walcott v. O’Connor, 163 Mass. 21, 22 (1895); NOLAN, CIVIL PRACTICE §516. At 445-446.”

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