SANGAMON COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) -- Almost two years after a class action lawsuit was filed against a Carlinville funeral home, the legal battle continues, and it could go all the way up to Illinois' Supreme Court.

In December of 2023, lawyers filed the lawsuit against Heinz Funeral Home and Family Care Cremation, on behalf of families who chose the funeral home for their loved ones' funerals and cremations. The lawsuit alleges that the cremated remains -- or cremains -- took a long time to arrive, which made the family members "anxious and suspicious." Eventually, cremains were delivered, and the families were told it was their deceased loved ones.

In reality, the complaint alleges, Heinz Funeral Home and Family Care Cremation mishandled the cremains, did not deliver the correct cremains, a

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