Meyer v. Kalanick

OPINION AND ORDER

JED S. RAKOFF, United States District Judge. '

Since the late eighteenth century, the Constitution of the United States and the constitutions or laws of the several states.have guaranteed U.S. citizens the right to a jury trial. This most precious and fundamental right can be waived only if the waiver is knowing and voluntary, with the courts “indulg[ing] every reasonable presumption against waiver.” Aetna Ins. Co. v. Kennedy to Use of Bogash, 301 U.S. 389, 393, 57 S.Ct. 809, 81 L.Ed. 1177 (1937); Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc, v. Allegheny Energy, Inc., 500 F.3d 171, 188 (2d…