The court of appeals accepts special action jurisdiction and then denies it. There is no right to a jury trial in actions brought before the corporation commission for violations of the Arizona Securities Act. Last year the Supreme Court recognized such a right under the Seventh Amendment in actions filed by the SEC. But states can decide whether a jury trial is available under its own constitution and statutes. The Seventh Amendment does not apply to the states. Arizona’s constitution gives the corporation commission quasi-judicial powers, and it can prescribe its rules and regulations. “If our constitutional framers had intended to confer a jury-trial right for Commission enforcement actions, they would have done so.” Such negativity. The Seventh Amendment sits alone with the Grand Jury Requirement of the Fifth Amendment as not being incorporated against the states. Administrative tribunals continually deny jury trials, courts legitimize the denials, and our legislature persistently ignore them.

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