Legal Opinion · Dissent
Calise v. Hidden Valley Condominium Ass'n
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 11, 2001No. 1999-452-AppealPublished
1DissentFlanders, Justice
I respectfully dissent. After the plaintiffs, Jeanette and Vincent Calise (the Cai-ises) entered into a settlement with two of the alleged joint-tortfeasor defendants in this case, G.L.1956 § 10-6-79 of Rhode Island’s Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act (UCATA) — consistent with the joint tortfeasor releases that the Caiises provided to the settling defendants — reduced the Caiises’ damages claims against the defaulted joint-tortfea-sor defendants. This damage-claim reduction occurred irrespective of the fact that these nonsettling defendants previously had been defaulted for failing…
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