When will a judge award post-judgment interest in a race discrimination case?

Schneider's argument fails because 28 U.S.C. 1961, not state law, governs post-judgment interest. See Schipani v. McLeod, 541 F.3d 158, 165 (2d Cir. 2008) (explaining that, in diversity cases, state law governs award of pre-judgment interest, and federal law governs award of post-judgment interest). Under 1961, an award of post-judgment interest is mandatory, see 28 U.S.C. 1961 ("Interest shall be allowed on any money judgment in a civil case recovered in a district court."), and courts calculating such interest "do not enjoy some amorphous equitable power to select a date other than the 'date of the entry of the judgment' to trigger the running of interest, even if their laudable aim is to effectuate the compensatory purpose of the postjudgment interest

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