Paul L. Wyatt, Cross-Appellant v. Penrod Drilling Co., and Offshore Food Services, Inc., Cross-Appellees

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• noting that the Fifth Circuit has “disapproved the award of prejudgment interest in a Jones Act case tried •to a jury”
• noting that “[i]f the court may not award prejudgment interest on the Jones Act claim, there is no separate pure admiralty item on which to allow interest” (internal alteration and citation omitted)
• in a mixed case, “ ‘there is no separate “pure” admiralty item on which to allow interest’ ”
• “[P]rejudgment interest is awarded almost as a matter of course in cases tried to a judge under general maritime principles . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).