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- SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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- No. 93-180
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- BOCA GRANDE CLUB, INC., PETITIONER v.
- FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, INC.
- on writ of certiorari to the united states court
- of appeals for the eleventh circuit
- [April 20, 1994]
-
- Justice Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court.
- We granted certiorari, 509 U. S. ___ (1993), to con-
- sider the question whether, in an action against several
- alleged joint tortfeasors under general maritime law, the
- plaintiff's settlement with one defendant bars a claim for
- contribution brought by nonsettling defendants against
- the settling defendant. Because the opinion that we
- announce today in McDermott, Inc. v. AmClyde, ante,
- p. ___, adopts the proportionate share rule, under which
- actions for contribution against settling defendants are
- neither necessary nor permitted, we vacate the judgment
- of the Court of Appeals and remand the case for further
- proceedings consistent with that opinion.
-
- It is so ordered.
-