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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Gremillion finds that the trial court improperly maintained the doctor's exception of no cause of action in the family's suit over the disfigurement of their loved one's body that occurred during the harvesting of her organs after her death. "The first and fourth circuits have recognized the principle that family members have causes of action for the mishandling of a relative's corpse." Reversed.
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