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January 4, 2008

Fired Mass. medical examiner sues Bay State

BOSTON -- The state’s former chief medical examiner has filed a lawsuit, claiming Governor Deval Patrick had no grounds to dismiss him after a report that said the ME’s office was on “the verge of collapse.”

Doctor Mark Flomenbaum was placed on administrative leave last May after it was revealed that the medical examiner had lost track of a body that later was found buried in the wrong grave.

He was fired in August after the scathing 36-page report that said the office could only be righted under new leadership.

Flomenbaum says he was hired in January 2005 to turn around the long-troubled office and was in the process of implementing some changes recommended in the report.

The lawsuit was filed in Suffolk Superior Court, but the Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to hear arguments on it because of important legal questions raised by the dispute.

-- The Associated Press

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