You Vang Yang v. Sturner

ADDENDUM

PETTINE, Senior District Judge.

On January 12, 1990, this Court released an opinion granting summary judgment on the issue of liability to the plaintiffs, the Yangs, for the emotional distress they suffered as a result of the defendant’s, Dr. Stumer’s, violation of their First Amendment rights. The facts of the case are set out in this Court’s opinion at 728 F.Supp. 845 (D.R.I.1990). In brief, Dr. Sturner, Rhode Island’s Chief Medical Examiner, conducted an autopsy on the Yangs’ son. This autopsy violated their deeply held religious beliefs. The Yangs are Hmongs, originally from Laos,…