Rekosh v. Parks

How courts have described this case

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• declining to recognize mishandling of a corpse as an exception to the “impact rule” and the “zone of physical danger rule”
• while there is no property right in a decedent’s body, the next of kin have a right to the possession of a decedent’s remains in order to make an appropriate disposition thereof
• while there is no property right in a decedent's body, the next of kin have a right to the possession of a decedent's remains in order to make an appropriate disposition thereof
• Crematory Act claim sufficiently pled based on similar allegations
• “We believe that a reasonable person who enjoyed a warm, affectionate, and natural relationship with a parent would resent someone who, upon that parent’s death, by means of a forgery, illegally cremated the body and disposed of the remains in a backyard without his knowledge or consent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).