Unliquidated damages

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(Law)

penalties or damages not ascertained in money.

- Burrill.

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Unliquidated damages by contrast are the damages the employer can claim where the loss has not been pre-determined between it and the contractor, where delay damages do not apply.

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section] 1491(a)(1) (2006) ("The United States Court of Federal Claims shall have jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim against the United States founded either upon the Constitution, or any Act of Congress or any regulation of an executive department, or upon any express or implied contract with the United States, or for liquidated or unliquidated damages in cases not sounding in tort.

The decline of the Court of Federal Claims in Nebraska Public Power District v. United States, 590 F.3d 1357 (Fed. Cir. 2010)

62) Courts following the minority approach also apply the "legal certainty" test liberally when encountering a case for unliquidated damages.

The uncertain status of the legal certainty test: the need for consistency among federal courts when determining the amount-in-controversy

The court concluded that a default generally terminates the parties' right to further defend, except to contest unliquidated damages.