Crocker v. Pleasant

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reviewing a trial court's decision granting a judgment on the pleadings by the de novo standard
• right of action for mutilation of dead body based on right of next of kin to bury body in an unmutilated condition
• “[T]here is a legitimate claim of entitlement by the next of kin to possession of the remains of a decedent for burial or other lawful disposition.”
• “A claim under section 1983 may be brough in state court.”
• negligent handling of a dead body

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).