Scope and Contents The Seventh Amendment states, "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law." Minsky bound a copy of The Litigation Explosion: What Happened When America Unleashed the Lawsuit by Walter K. Olson.Minsky writes in his web site description of the Bill of Rights series, "In 1789 twenty dollars went a long way. Since the 1970's, 'civil' lawsuits have flooded the judicial systm. Now a multibillion dollar business, the litigation industry proceeds on flimsy pretexts, preceding a search for evidence. The spine of the binding is gold leather with the title foilstamped in silver(neither is the genuine metal). The gold and silver make it hard to decipher. the covers appear to be a collage of $20 bills, but closer examination reveals them to be...