Opinion ID: 675767
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Municipality Status

Text: 15 This justification for denying prejudgment interest need not detain us very long. We have found no cases, nor has the City cited us any, from this circuit or elsewhere which have stated that an award of interest should be denied where the party against whom it is sought is a municipality. In fact, in Central Rivers Towing, the plaintiff sought and obtained an award of prejudgment interest at the rate of 12% per annum against the city of Beardstown without the district court or this court ever raising an objection to such an award on the basis that it was being levied against a city. The City has not suggested that we disavow this portion of Central Rivers Towing. Accordingly, we refuse to recognize municipality status as a peculiar circumstance warranting the denial of prejudgment interest.