{"id":17048,"date":"2010-01-02T20:28:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_court_rules_against_9_11_families_burial_claims\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T20:28:47","slug":"rns_court_rules_against_9_11_families_burial_claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17048","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Court Rules Against 9\/11 Families&#39; Burial Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court has rejected the claims of families who wanted the unidentified remains of relatives killed in the 9\/11 attacks to be given a proper burial according to their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday (Dec. 23) against a group called World Trade Center Families for a Proper Burial, which sued New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city officials.<\/p>\n<p>The families had sought the burial of the residue from the debris of the World Trade Center, located at the city\u2019s Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, in a cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=15413\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court has rejected the claims of families who wanted the unidentified remains of relatives killed in the 9\/11 attacks to be given a proper burial according to their religious beliefs. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17048\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,438,114,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-death-burial-funerals","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}