Domestic Loan & Investment Bank v. Ernst

INTRODUCTION

This action was commenced by plaintiff Domestic Loan and Investment Bank (the “Bank”) to recover costs it incurred in responding to contamination on property1 it acquired by foreclosure and which, prior to the owners whose interest was foreclosed, was owned by the two defendants. The claims against defendant Juan M. Tavares (‘Tavares”) have been dismissed as have certain claims against defendant Ruth Brown Ernst (“Ernst”). Ernst has now moved for partial summary judgment on the claims remaining against her and on Counts I and II of her counterclaim against the Bank.2 For the…