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SEATTLE (AP) - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over the use of organ donor body parts for research and purposes other than transplantation, and officials say they plan to revise the state's consent procedure as a result.
King County Superior Court Judge Joan E. DuBuque rejected a case brought by Nancy Adams and her husband, Matthew, against the county medical examiner's office after they learned that organs from her son, Jesse Smith, 21, were sent to a research company without the family's knowledge.
Smith died of a heart attack on May 21, 2003, less than two months after marking the organ donor consent form while renewing his driver's license. Within hours his mother was told that her son's organs were unsuitable for live transplant.
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