231379P.pdf   01/25/2024  Contitech USA, Inc.  v.  McLaughlin Freight Services, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  23-1379
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Eastern   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Grasz, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Civil case - Fraud. A reasonable jury could find that in order to prevent 
   defendant from benefiting from its fraud, the proper remedy was to award 
   plaintiff the benefit of the bargain it struck with defendant; a 
   reasonable jury could have found for plaintiff on the fraud and unjust 
   enrichment counts in the amount awarded, and the district court did not 
   err in denying defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law on 
   plaintiff's fraud and unjust enrichment claims; the district court did not 
   err in sua sponte remitting defendant's award to prevent a double recovery 
   as the parties has agreed that the court could modify any verdict to avoid 
   a double recovery; the district court did not err in awarding plaintiff 
   post-judgment interest in the absence of a motion for such an award as the 
   award of post-judgment interest is mandatory under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1961; 
   the district court did not err in awarding plaintiff prejudgment interest 
   in the absence of a post-trial motion because plaintiff had already asked 
   for this relief in its complaint.