United States Fourth Circuit

In case involving insurance coverage dispute and the right to a jury trial in an admiralty case, petition for writ of mandamus challenging order striking petitioner's request for a jury trial after it asserted compulsory counterclaims is granted as the Seventh Amendment was implicated here and petitioner was entitled to a jury trial.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/31/2007
• Decided 09/27/2007
• Published 09/27/2007

Judges

• Before TRAXLER and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and WIDENER, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stanley McDermott, III, DLA Piper US, L.L.P., New York, New York, for Petitioner.  James Wilson Bartlett, III, Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Maryland, for Respondent.