Legal Opinion
Silge v. Merz
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 6, 2007No. Docket 06-0629-cvPublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:
This case calls upon us to decide whether the appellant, after securing a default judgment, should have been permitted to recover on a claim for prejudgment interest that was not pleaded in the complaint or reflected in its demand clause. Notwithstanding that the appellant notified the defaulted defendants of this additional claim before damages were calculated, we hold that the district court correctly applied Rule 54(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in not allowing such recovery to the extent it would result in an award exceeding the amount prayed for in…
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