Green v. Southern Transplant Service

How courts have described this case

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• permitting recovery for “whatever emotional distress they could prove at a trial on the merits for the desecration of the body of the decedent”
• noting contemporary society’s respect for remains of the dead as attested to by the “tremendous impact the demand for the return of the remains of our Vietnam War dead has had on foreign policy”
• such claims are for damages sustained directly by the claimants and not to be considered in the category of derivative claims for emotional distress resulting from physical harm to a third party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).