New York’s highest court has ruled that medical examiners don’t have to return to families all organs from autopsied bodies or even tell them parts are missing.
The case involves a New York City couple who buried their 17-year-old son after a 2005 car crash, not knowing his brain had been removed.
Two months after the funeral, Jesse Shipley’s high school class saw his brain in a labeled jar during a morgue field trip.
The Shipleys got it back and had a second funeral.
A jury awarded them $1 million for emotional distress, reduced to $600,000 by a midlevel court.
The Court of Appeals said Wednesday that medical examiners have discretion to tell families organs have been kept and have no liability for not doing it.
(AP)
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Another Obama law. What a disgrace…
if my body belongs to the state, then its a no brainer that he can go through the niftar’s wallet and take his money too!
Search going on for obamas brain.. .. If found return to Isis
This is all part of obamacare, doctors get payed less, so they are allowed to take organs to sell on the black market 😉
CONTACT your Organizations and demand
This is a state matter for NY and has nothing to do with President Obama or the Affordable Care Act.
Some pig-headed bigots will take any opportunity to spread their poison.