Eaves v. County Of Cape May

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that \the phrase 'money judgment' commonly refers to a judgment entered upon a jury verdict\
• noting that “the phrase ‘money judgment’ commonly refers to a judgment entered upon a jury verdict”
• explaining that “[t]he Supreme Court has equated the adjustment allowed for the delay in payment in civil rights cases with an award of prejudgment interest on the attorney’s fee award.”
• noting “appropriate form of a delay-in-payment adjustment to the lodestar amount” achieves complete compensation
• adopting minority view that “where the district court enters an order stating that the prevailing party is entitled to a fee award but does not quantify the amount of the award until a later date, post-judgment interest does not accrue until the Court fixes the amount of the award”
• “[P]ost-judgment interest does not begin to run until the court fixes the amount owed—in other words, it commences upon the entry of the ‘money judgment.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).