Shipley v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Mastro, J.P.
In the present controversy, we are called upon to determine whether the conduct of the defendant Office of the New York City Medical Examiner (hereinafter the Medical Examiner’s Office) in releasing the decedent’s body to his family for burial following an autopsy, without advising the family members that the decedent’s brain had been removed and was being retained for further examination, and without affording them an opportunity to delay the burial of the decedent’s remains until such time as the brain could be returned to them, gives rise to a cause of…
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