Can a judge correct a mistake in awarding pre-decision interest in a judgment?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Paddington Partners v. Bouchard, 34 F.3d 1132 (2nd Cir. 1994):

Rule 60(a) provides that "[c]lerical mistakes in judgments, orders, or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court at any time of its own initiative or on the motion of any party." To be correctable under Rule 60(a), the absence of an award of pre-decision interest in a judgment must fail to reflect the actual intention of the court. Frigitemp, 781 F.2d at 327; Lee v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., 592 F.2d 39, 42 (2d Cir.1979). An error in a judgment that accurately reflects the decision of the court or jury as rendered is not "clerical" within the terms of Rule 60(a). Frigitemp, 781 F.2d at 328.

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