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2005 Decisions                                                                                                             States Court of Appeals
                                                                                                                              for the Third Circuit


3-30-2005

Bernback v. Greco
Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential

Docket No. 04-2494




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                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                          FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT


                                    No. 04-2494


                            MICHAEL L. BERNBACK,

                                                           Appellant

                                         v.

         THOMAS GRECO, individually and as President of Harvey's Lake
                          Amphitheater, Inc.

                                              (Amended per order dated 6/16/04)


                  On Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
                             (D.C. Civ. No. 98-00230)
                   Honorable A. Richard Caputo, District Judge


                     Submitted under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a)
                                  March 7, 2005

   BEFORE: SCIRICA, Chief Judge, and ROTH and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges

                              (Filed: March 30, 2005)




                            OPINION OF THE COURT


GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.

     This matter comes on before this court on an appeal from an order entered April
29, 2004, in accordance with a memorandum opinion of the district court of that day.

Inasmuch as we are writing only for the parties who, of course, are familiar with this case,

we need not set forth its facts or procedural history. The issue in this case is quite simple

and is stated fairly by Michael L. Bernback, the appellant: whether interest on an award

of attorneys fees and expenses accrues from the date of the original judgment on a jury

verdict entitling a party to attorneys fee and expenses, in this case November 6, 2000, or,

as the appellee Thomas Greco argues, from the time when a judgment was entered on the

award of attorneys fees and expenses after they were quantified, in this case, July 29,

2002. The district court selected the later date and Bernback has appealed.

       The district court exercised diversity of citizenship jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §

1332 and we exercise jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We exercise plenary review as

the question is purely of law. Tudor Dev. Group, Inc. v. United States Fid. & Guar. Co.,

, 359 (3d Cir. 1992).

       We will affirm as our result is controlled by our opinion in Eaves v. County of

Cape May, 

, 542 (3d Cir. 2001). Bernback’s brief, which argues for interest

from the earlier date and cites precedent from other courts of appeal in support of this

contention, necessarily is of no avail as it is dependent on his assertion that we “wrongly

followed the so-called minority view,” appellant’s br. at 17, in reaching our result in

Eaves. Of course, we as a panel must reject Bernback’s contention as Eaves binds us.

Third Circuit IOP 9.1.



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The order of April 29, 2004, will be affirmed.




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