United Technologies Corporation v. Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding plaintiffs who were by their own admission liable parties, were in effect asserting an action for contribution
• stating that CERCLA “was designed to encourage settlements and provide PRPs a measure of finality in return for their willingness to settle”
• recognizing “presumed existence of joint and several liability”
• recognizing \presumed existence of joint and several liability\
• defining contribution as “a claim by and between jointly and severally liable parties for an appropriate division of the payment one of them has been compelled to make”
• since plaintiffs admitted that they were liable parties, court concluded that claim must be one for contribution under section 113

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).