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Parties Involved:
AG Equipment Company
Appellant
AIG Life Insurance Company
Appellee

Document Text:

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

July 30, 2010

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

AG EQUIPMENT COMPANY, 

Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant - 

 Appellant/Cross-Appellee,

and

EDWARD T. KURTZ, in his capacity as

trustee of the Suzanne Ash Kurtz

Revocable Trust,

Plaintiff,

v.

AIG LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,

INC., 

Defendant-Counter-Claimant - 

 Appellee/Cross-Appellant,

and

MARK HEIDENREITER,

Defendant. 

__________________________

AG EQUIPMENT COMPANY, 

Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant -

Appellant,

Nos. 09-5038 & 09-5044

(D.C. No. 4:07-CV-00556-CVE-PJC)

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v.

AIG LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, 

Defendant-Counter-Claimant -

Appellee. 

No. 09-5118

ORDER

Before TACHA, EBEL, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

These matters are before the court upon our careful review of the jurisdictional

issues presented. In short, we conclude the failure to set a specific amount in

prejudgment interest renders the underlying judgments non-final. That lack of finality, in

turn, is fatal to the continuation of these appeals as we lack jurisdiction. See Garcia v.

Burlington Northern R. Co., 818 F.3d 713, 721 (10 Cir. 1987)(noting prejudgment th

interest “must be a part of the primary damage relief” and “is not a collateral issue”). We

note in this regard there is no indication the failure to fix an amount certain was a purely

clerical error. See Pratt v. Petroleum Prod. Mgt. Inc., 920 F.3d 651, 656 (10 Cir. 1990). th

The district court is in the best position to address this prejudgment interest issue,

and may do so on the record currently available. In addition, we note that because no

final judgment has entered, the time for the parties to file motions under Fed. R. Civ. P.

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59(e) has not technically begun. 

The calendar notice setting these cases for oral argument on September 20, 2010 is

vacated. We order these appeals dismissed for lack of appellate jurisdiction. 

Entered for the Court,

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER

Clerk of Court

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