Lima v. Newark Police Department

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that separately captioned prayer for relief “was not part of a particular claim or count in the complaint”
• holding that the phrase “all of Plaintiffs claims for relief’ was ambiguous
• holding courts may not consider extrinsic evidence when interpreting an offer of judgment
• remanding to district court for an award of attorneys’ fees where offer of judgment for all “claims for relief” was silent and ambiguous as to attorney fees
• the Third Circuit found the defendant's offer ambiguous, interpreted it against the offeror, and held that the offer did not include costs.
• “The doctrine of invited error refers to an error that a party cannot complain of ... because the party, through conduct, encouraged or prompted the trial court to make the erroneous ruling.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).