Opinion ID: 2570402
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Heading: stanley is entitled to interest on the attorney fees from the date the district court made a final determination of the amount of attorney fees due.

Text: In Long v. Hendricks, 117 Idaho 1051, 793 P.2d 1223 (1990) ( Long III ), the Court considered an award of interest, determining that Long was not entitled to interest on additional wages from the date of the original judgment because the amount was not ascertainable. On the other hand, interest was allowable from the date of the original judgment for medical expenses that were liquidated. This Court has recently affirmed the analysis in Long in its decision in Bouten v. H.F. Magnuson Company, 133 Idaho 756, 992 P.2d 751 (1999). The Court determined that interest is not to be awarded on unliquidated amounts, and that interest should run from the date of the supplemental judgment and not from the date of the district court's original judgment. The amount of attorney fees due to Stanley was not ascertainable until the district court entered the award of $31,180 following remand from the Court of Appeals. [1] That amount was paid within a few days of entry of the order in the district court.