Opinion ID: 557231
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Disposition of Bad Faith Counterclaim

Text: 39 Both parties concede that the district court in its findings of fact and conclusions of law failed to dispose of Anh Thi Kieu's bad faith counterclaim against Albany. Anh Thi Kieu in this appeal abandons its counterclaim and asks this Court to conclude that the assured's counterclaim is at minimum denied by implication. We have not discovered any authority for the proposition that the absence of a ruling on a party's claim is a denial of the claim by implication. We nonetheless conclude that under the particular facts of the instant case the district court's failure to dispose of the bad faith counterclaim does not require reversal. It would be a fruitless waste of judicial resources to remand a case for a ruling on a claim which the asserting party has effectively abandoned on appeal. Cf. Allen v. Barnes Hosp., 721 F.2d 643, 644 (8th Cir.1983) (district court's failure to rule on constitutional arguments in bench trial is not error if the asserting party has waived the arguments).