A short excerpt from yesterday's long Massachusetts high court decision in Weiss v. President & Fellows of Harvard College , written by Justice Scott Kafker:

In a macabre scheme spanning several years, Cedric Lodge, the person responsible for the care of cadavers at the Harvard Medical School morgue, dissected, stole, and sold parts of the bodies of individuals who donated their remains for research purposes….

Decedents' relatives sued Harvard, and the court concluded that the case could go forward, despite "the 'good faith' defense under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA …)":

As outlined in [a criminal] indictment, Lodge stole dissected portions of donated cadavers, including heads, brains, skin, bones, and other human remains, and transported them to his home in New Hampshire. Fro

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