In 1996, Doris Kelley and her daughter, Katie Kelley-Mareau, filed a lawsuit against Clarence Lushbaugh, the pathologist who performed the autopsy on Cecil Kelley.[12][13] The case alleged the misconduct of doctors, the hospital, and the administration of Los Alamos in removing organs from the deceased without consent from next-of-kin over a span of many years (1958–1980).[14][15] Kelley's autopsy was the first instance of this type of post-mortem analysis, but Lushbaugh and others performed many more in later years at Los Alamos.[13] During a deposition for the case, Lushbaugh, when asked who gave him the authority to take eight pounds (3.6 kilograms) of organs and tissue from Kelley's body, said, "God gave me permission." The class action suit was settled by the defendants for about $9.5 million in 2002 and an additional $800,000 in 2007. None of the defendants admitted any wrongdoing.
The unwillingess to ever admit wrongdoing in a legal or social context is a political disease.
anigbrowl•7h ago
The unwillingess to ever admit wrongdoing in a legal or social context is a political disease.