Massachusetts' highest court allowed civil lawsuits filed against Harvard University to continue after families whose loved ones' remains, donated for scientific research to its medical school, were stolen and sold on the black market appealed their dismissal.

The cases were dismissed in February 2024, but the Supreme Judicial Court reversed part of that decision on Monday and sent the group of lawsuits back for further consideration.

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The former manager of Harvard Medical School's morgue, Cedric Lodge, pleaded guilty to federal charges in the morgue scandal earlier this year. Lodge had been accused of letting people come into the morgue to pick out body parts for sale, then steal them and take them to his hom

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