can you recieve compensatory damages in federal court

The civil suit resulted in the defendant having to pay compensatory damages to the victim.

Actual or compensatory damages are sometimes used in the same manner. Generally, both are given to reimburse the victim's economic losses. So examples of compensatory damages involve lost wages and earnings as well as medical expenses incurred as a result of the accident and/or incident at work. The specific amount of money lost by the victim is reimbursed by actual or compensatory damages.

Compensatory and Punitive

Normally, compensatory damages are measured by the party's expectancy, or what the parties should have reasonably foreseen as flowing from the breach.

Parties may also receive reliance damages for the expenses caused by relying on the breached contract or restitution damages for the expense of assets conferred on the breaching party.