§ 46a-58
- Citation
- § 46a-58
- Parent Document
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut (state)
- Effective Date
- 2022-04-26
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- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
- Connecticut Judicial Branch v. Gilbert, 343 Conn. 90 (2022)
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2,492 charsterms. The consent necessary to waive the traditional
immunity must be express, and it must be strictly con-
strued.’’ (Citations omitted; footnotes omitted; internal
quotation marks omitted.) Id., 314–18.
Applying these principles, the United States Supreme
Court in Shaw concluded that prejudgment interest
could not be awarded for employment discrimination
claims under Title VII because, although Congress waived
sovereign immunity with respect to liability and dam-
ages, it did not specifically and expressly authorize
interest payments in the statute.20 See id., 319, 323. The
court rejected the argument that prejudgment interest
can be characterized as ‘‘damages,’’ a ‘‘penalty,’’ or ‘‘just
compensation’’ so as to avoid the no-interest rule.
(Internal quotation marks omitted.) Id., 321; see Arne-
son v. Callahan, 128 F.3d 1243, 1247 (8th Cir. 1997) (no-
interest rule applies notwithstanding that prejudgment
interest awards are necessary to make whole victims
of discrimination), cert. denied sub nom. Arneson v.
Apfel, 524 U.S. 926, 118 S. Ct. 2319, 141 L. Ed. 2d 694
(1998).
Although our state courts have not articulated the
no-interest rule with the same frequency or specificity
as have our federal counterparts, it is apparent that
the rule applies with equal force to the state under
Connecticut law. In Struckman v. Burns, 205 Conn. 542,
534 A.2d 888 (1987), this court held that prejudgment
interest was not available for a claim brought under
the defective highway statute, General Statutes § 13a-
144. See id., 543, 556. Although the statute reasonably
could have been read to imply that prejudgment interest
was available; see id., 557–58; the court applied the
20
We note that Congress subsequently amended Title VII to provide
expressly for prejudgment interest awards against the United States. See
Civil Rights Act of 1991, Pub. L. No. 102-166, § 114, 105 Stat. 1071. Of course,
that option is always available to our state legislature with respect to interest
awards against the state.
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