Legal Opinion
You Vang Yang v. Sturner
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided January 12, 1990No. Civ. A. 88-0242PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PETTINE, Senior District Judge.
This sad case pits You Vang Yang and la Kue Yang, a couple whose deeply-held religious beliefs prohibit the mutilation of the body through an autopsy, against Rhode Island’s chief medical examiner, who performed an autopsy on their deceased son. Making the case all the more tragic are recent developments in the Supreme Court that, applied to this case, leave the Yangs without an adequate remedy under § 1983 to assuage their understandable grief over the death of their son, grief compounded by the treatment of his body at the hands of the defendant.
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