---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 1872"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "1872"
heading: "Issues of fact in Supreme Court"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/1872"
units:
  - "Part V — Procedure"
  - "Chapter 121 — Juries; Trial by Jury"
---

# §1872. Issues of fact in Supreme Court


In all original actions at law in the Supreme Court against citizens of the United States, issues of fact shall be tried by a jury.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 953.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 343 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 235, 36 Stat. 1156).

Changes were made in phraseology.