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For Allan Batcock, a straight 43-year-old man based in Cheshire, the ignorance around HIV took its toll on his mental health and his social life. When he was diagnosed in 2011, his entire knowledge of HIV consisted of “Freddie Mercury dying and that HIV tombstone advert of the 1980s”. After the diagnosis, he says, he fell to “complete and utter bits”. When he told his then girlfriend, the relationship broke down, while people in his local pub refused to sit with him.

Eight years on, he is in a much better place – healthy, comfortable and happily married – although his status still leaves him feeling lonely (as it does one in five people living with HIV). “I feel very isolated a lot of the time,” saysthe complaint;
2) the motion (# 8-1) of defendant First Interstate Bank of Oregon, N.A. (First Interstate) to dismiss or for summary judgment against the complaint; and
3) the motion (# 8-2) of defendant First Interstate to strike the second count in the complaint.

BACKGROUND
Plaintiff, First Fidelity Bank, N.A. (First Fidelity), is a national banking association with its principal place of business in the State of New Jersey. First Fidelity is suing First Interstate and Ann Bartell on its own behalf and as Trustee of the Antoinette C. Bigel Trust, a testamentary trust. Plaintiff Trustee maintained an account at plaintiff First Fidelity. Dr. Gilbert Bartell, the son of Antoinette Bigel, was the sole life beneficiary of the Trust. During Dr. Bartell's lifetime the net income was to be paid to him.