Opinion ID: 521960
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Heading: Other Damages

Text: 16 United Merchants' remaining argument on damages is that the calculation should not include the 18-month period from the jury verdict up to the hearing on damages in January, 1988. The parties had stipulated that only the issue of liability would be submitted to the jury, and that the district judge would calculate the damages, if any. Adopting the recommendation of the magistrate, the district court's award of damages included the period up to the damage hearing, and was made in reliance on Bonura v. Chase Manhattan Bank, 629 F.Supp. 353, 357 (S.D.N.Y.), aff'd on other grounds, 795 F.2d 276 (2d Cir.1986) (per curiam ) and E.E.O.C. v. Kallir, Phillips, Ross, Inc., 420 F.Supp. 919, 924 (S.D.N.Y.1976), aff'd, 559 F.2d 1203 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 920, 98 S.Ct. 395, 54 L.Ed.2d 277 (1977). 17 We see no reason to fault the district court on this aspect of the award. Appellant has failed to point to any binding authority for the proposition that damages may not include the pre-damage hearing period. We need not now decide the broader question of whether ADEA damages must always include the interim period between the jury verdict and the damages hearing. Cf. E.E.O.C. v. Colgate-Palmolive Co., 612 F.Supp. 1476, 1483 (S.D.N.Y.1985) (calculating damages to end at time of jury verdict). Having agreed to let the district judge decide the damages issue without specifying the timespan, the parties have relinquished their right to complain about the method by which the district court carried out its responsibilities.