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Newman v. Sathyavaglswaran | 287 F.3d 786 (2002)
The law recognizes that people have constitutional rights regarding their own bodies. But what about the bodies of deceased family members? That difficult but important question was raised in Newman versus Sathyavaglswaran.
Richard Newman and Kenneth Obarski were children who died in California in nineteen ninety-seven. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, headed by Doctor Sathyavaglswaran, performed autopsies on the bodies. California law authorized the coroner to remove the corneas from autopsied bodies if the coroner didn’t know of any objection to doing so. The purpose of this law was to help ensure a supply of corneal tissue for transplantation.
The coroner removed the corneas from Richard’s and Kenneth’s bodies without first obtaining their parents’ consent. The parents, Robert Newman and Barbara Obarski, sued the coroner in a federal district court, alleging that he deprived them of their property rights in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The coroner moved to dismiss the case, alleging that the parents failed to state a claim on which relief could be granted. The trial court granted the motion, and the parents appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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