Shelley v. Trafalgar House Public Ltd. Co.

OPINION AND ORDER

DOMINGUEZ, District Judge.

Pending before the court is Defendants’ Motion to Strike Jury Demand. (Docket No. 190.) The Seventh Amendment guarantees the right to a jury trial on all legal suits, rather than suits in equity or admiralty. Thus, the issue before the court is whether Plaintiffs’ culpa in contrahendo suit is legal or equitable in nature.

Defendants argue that the culpa in contrahendo suit is analogous to the promissory estoppel suit — an action in equity — -and, therefore, Plaintiffs do not have a constitutional right to a jury trial. Plaintiffs counter, however,…