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KENNEDY-MCINNIS v. BIOMEDICAL TISSUE SERVICES

13-CV-6545, 06-CV-6410.

178 F.Supp.3d 97 (2016)

Cyndia KENNEDY-MCINNIS, Lejune Kennedy, Carolyn Kennedy-Green, Ernest Kennedy, Brant Kennedy, Donna Mattern, Robert Nenno, Laurie Stathopoulos, Jill Wirth, Virginia Jacobson, Rolann Bailey, Shauna Clay and John Yeager on behalf of themselves and all persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. BIOMEDICAL TISSUE SERVICES, LTD., Michael Mastromarino, Serenity Hill's Funeral Home Inc., Thomas E. Burger Funeral Home Inc., Profetta Funeral Home, Regeneration Technologies Inc., LifeCell Corporation, Tutogen Medical Inc., Blood & Tissue Center of Central TX, and Lost Mountain Tissue Bank, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. New York.

Signed April 11, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Van Henri White, Law Office of Van White, Rochester, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Robert J. McGuirl, Law Offices of Robert J. McGuirl, Park Ridge, NJ, Edmond C. Baird, Kevin J. English, Phillips Lytle LLP, Buffalo, NY, Joseph A. D'Avanzo, D'Avanzo & Morreale, P.C., White Plains, NY, Joseph T. Perkins, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP, Albany, NY, Denise Brinker Bense, Cozen O'Connor, West Conshohocken, PA, for Defendants.

DECISION & ORDER

This case arises out of the alleged unlawful "harvesting" of human body parts and tissues from corpses that were entrusted to certain funeral homes in the Rochester, New York area. Plaintiffs, who are family members of the decedents in question, allege that the defendants...

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