Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Kesler v. Department of Motor Vehicles
Kesler v. Dep’t of Motor Vehicles, 397 U.S. 989 (1970)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1970-03-23
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- “personal wrongdoings” of defendant should be considered in evaluating whether an award of prejudgment interest is in accord with “fundamental fairness”
- “[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.”
- "An award of [prejudgment interest] is, in the first instance, compensatory ..."
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Sup. Ct. Cal. Certiorari denied.