Families whose loved ones’ bodies were donated to the morgue at Harvard Medical School, then dismembered and sold by an employee as part of a criminal scheme, can sue the school and the person who oversaw the morgue , the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday.

The suits filed in Suffolk Superior Court named Cedric Lodge, who Harvard described as a “staff assistant” at the morgue and the medical school itself as defendants. Lodge pleaded guilty to criminal charges earlier this year , admitting to trafficking body parts he stole from the morgue, after being indicted in 2023 .

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