Mazur v. Woodson

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the Virginia legislature created a “broad and coequal” class of individuals who have rights to a deceased’s body
• stating that the plaintiff alleged “intentional and negligent mishandling of a corpse”
• “Should a third party interfere with that right [to a loved one’s remains] by withholding the body or mishandling the body, the family would have a cause of action against that party[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).