Legal Opinion
Ross v. THE BOARD OF REGENTS, UNIVER., NEW MEXICO
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 23, 2010No. 08-2253PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKAY, Circuit Judge.
In this case, the plaintiffs appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment on various state and federal claims arising from an autopsy conducted by state officials. Because we believe the plaintiffs’ claims fail as a matter of law, we affirm the district court’s decision.
BACKGROUND
On July 6, 2005, Elvin Ross, Jr., (“the decedent”) a San Carlos Apache of one-half sanguinity, passed away at the Lovelace Medical Center in New Mexico where he had been a patient in the Intensive Care Unit for close to a month. The attending physician at Lovelace referred the matter of…
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