Opinion ID: 774360
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Heading: Conspiracy Damages

Text: 38 Deckers waived its objection to the verdict form's allowance for damages for civil conspiracy. Although this issue involves a pure question of law -is civil conspiracy a source of a separate actionable wrong that can sustain a damages verdict under Montana law? -we decline to exercise our discretion to consider it. Unlike some of the other arguments discussed in this section, Deckers did not even squarely raise this argument in its post-trial motions. The district court was never given a chance to pass on this issue, and there is no danger that a manifest injustice will result from our refusal to consider it. See Los Angeles News Serv. v. Reuters Television Int'l, Ltd., 149 F.3d 987, 996 (9th Cir. 1998). For these reasons, we decline also to reach Deckers' related argument that it could not be liable for conspiracy unless Granville was also found liable. 39