Legal Opinion
WTC Families for a Proper Burial, Inc. v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 7, 2008No. 05 Civ. 7243(AKH)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
ALVIN K. HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.
The terrorists of September 11, 2001 murdered 2,749 people in Towers One and Two of the World Trade Center. Approximately 1,100 of the victims perished without leaving a trace, utterly consumed into incorporeality by the intense, raging fires, or pulverized into dust by the massive tons of collapsing concrete and steel. Full bodies were recovered for only 292 victims, and partial remains were found for another 1,357 victims — sometimes a fragment of bone or a possession, sometimes more. City workers and…
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