Doe v. Crescent City Baptist Church

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that state is immune from award of interest under general interest statute, General Statutes § 37-3a, in absence of express statutory autho- rization
• holding that trial court improperly failed to award prejudgment interest under § 37-3a after finding that payment owed by defendant was wrongfully withheld under contract
• some reduction from blue book rental rates required by law due to lack of wear and tear of idle equipment
• § 37-3a “permits recovery of interest ... at a maximum rate of 10 percent” [emphasis added]
• explaining “a 50 percent reduction is the standard method used”
• finding six-month delay period not inordinate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).