A federal judge has denied class action status to families seeking damages from funeral homes in three states for the ghoulish, unauthorized harvesting of their loved ones' body tissue for transplants. U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, N.J., ruled Monday that the proliferation of factual differences in the cases make a class action unworkable. There are too many potential conflicts between the interests of the 13 named plaintiffs and potential class members numbering in the hundreds, he found.
March 04, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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A federal judge has denied class action status to families seeking damages from funeral homes in three states for the ghoulish, unauthorized harvesting of their loved ones’ body tissue for transplants.
U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, N.J., ruled Monday that the proliferation of factual differences in the cases make a class action unworkable.
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