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YOU VANG YANG v. STURNER

Civ. A. No. 88-0242.

728 F.Supp. 845 (1990)

YOU VANG YANG, Ia Kue Yang v. William Q. STURNER, Individually and in his capacity as Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Rhode Island.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

January 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amato DeLuca, Providence, R.I., for plaintiff.

Barbara E. Grady, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. State of R.I., Providence, R.I., for defendant.

OPINION

PETTINE, Senior District Judge.

This sad case pits You Vang Yang and Ia Kue Yang, a couple whose deeply-held religious beliefs prohibit the mutilation of the body through an autopsy, against Rhode Island's chief medical examiner, who performed an autopsy on their deceased son. Making the case all the more tragic are recent developments in the Supreme Court that, applied to this case, leave the Yangs without an adequate remedy under § 1983 to...

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