Kesler v. Department of Motor Vehicles

Kesler v. Department of Motor Vehicles of California

Kesler v. Dep't of Motor Vehicles, 397 U.S. 989 (1970)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: March 23, 1970
Docket: No. 1133
Citations: 397 U.S. 98990 S. Ct. 112125 L. Ed. 2d 3961970 U.S. LEXIS 2485

Cited by 116 4 descriptions by later courts

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Sup. Ct. Cal. Certiorari denied.

How later courts describe this case

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(“personal wrongdoings” of defendant should be considered in evaluating whether an award of prejudgment interest is in accord with “fundamental fairness”)

Sec. & Exch. Comm'n v. Tome, 638 F. Supp. 638 (S.D.N.Y. 1986)
(“[t]he other three cards were properly authenticated by testimony that the signer had returned the card to the union agent, thus adopting as his own the signature thereon.”)

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Gen. Wood Preserving Co. Burke-Parsons Bowlby, 905 F.2d 803 (4th Cir. 1990)
("An award of [prejudgment interest] is, in the first instance, compensatory ...")

U.S. Indus. v. Touche Ross & Co., 854 F.2d 1223 (10th Cir. 1988)

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Continental Oil Company v. Bonanza Corporation and Republic Insurance Company677 F.2d 455 (5th Cir. 1982)
Goodman v. Orr19 Cal. App. 3d 845 (1971)
Nedd v. United Mine Workers of America488 F. Supp. 1208 (M.D. Penn. 1980)

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