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UNITED STATES v. MARYLAND BANK & TRUST CO.

Civ. A. No. N-84-4026.

632 F.Supp. 573 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America v. MARYLAND BANK & TRUST COMPANY.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

April 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Henry Habicht II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., Breckinridge L. Willcox, and Glenda G. Gordon, Office of the U.S. Atty. for the D. Md., Ellen M. Mahan, Land & Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff U.S.; Judith A. Dorsey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.

Walter W. Sawyer, of Sawyer & Myerberg, Lexington Park, Md., for defendant Maryland Bank & Trust Co.

NORTHROP, Senior District Judge.

This case presents the novel question of whether a bank, which formerly held a mortgage on a parcel of land, later purchased the land at a foreclosure sale and continues to own it, must reimburse the United States for the cost of cleaning up hazardous wastes on the land, when those wastes were dumped prior to the bank's purchase of the property.

The United States instituted this action pursuant to section 107 of the Comprehensive...

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