''Beacon Theatres, Inc. v. Westover'', 359 U.S. 500 (1959), was a case decided by the
Supreme Court of the United States dealing with
jury trial
A jury trial, or trial by jury, is a legal proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact. It is distinguished from a bench trial in which a judge or panel of judges makes all decisions.
Jury trials are used in a significan ...
s in civil matters. The court held that where legal and equitable claims are joined in the same action, the ''legal'' claims must be tried by a jury before the ''equitable'' claims can be resolved.
Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute summarized it like this:
The question was whether the exclusive agreement of
Fox Theatres
Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Co ...
with the distributor Westover for first-run movies was reasonable.
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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 359
This is a list of all the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court cases from volume 359 of the ''United States Reports'':
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Fox Theatres
Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Co ...
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Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Seventh Amendment (Amendment VII) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. This amendment codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and inhibits courts from overturning a jury's findings of fact.
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Galloway v. United States''
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Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood'', 369 U.S. 469.
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Ross v. Berhard''
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United States Seventh Amendment case law
United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Warren Court
1959 in United States case law
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