Legal Opinion
Waeschle v. Dragovic
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 14, 2009No. 08-2228PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
After Karen Waeschle’s mother died, an autopsy was performed to determine the cause of death. When the mother’s remains were returned to Waeschle for cremation, she was not informed that the brain had been removed during the autopsy and was still being studied by the Medical Examiner. Waeschle sued Oakland County and Ljubisa J. Dragovic, the Oakland County Medical Examiner (Dragovic or the Medical Examiner), after discovering that her mother’s brain had been incinerated as medical waste once the autopsy was completed. The Medical Examiner,…
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