{"id":1172,"date":"2022-02-23T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/the-cochran-firm-mid-south-continues-to-fight-for-justice-for-our-clients\/"},"modified":"2022-02-23T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:04:47","slug":"the-cochran-firm-mid-south-continues-to-fight-for-justice-for-our-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/the-cochran-firm-mid-south-continues-to-fight-for-justice-for-our-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cochran Firm Mid-South Continues to Fight for Justice for our Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The years-long lawsuit over burials at Galilee Memorial Gardens may be coming to an end soon.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, LaTaria Smith couldn\u2019t find her mom and daughter\u2019s graves. Smith is one of hundreds of plaintiffs who\u00a0filed suit over how graves and burials were mishandled at Galilee over the years. They claimed graves were left unmarked, and bodies stacked one on the other.<\/p>\n<p>The Cochran <a href=\"https:\/\/cochranfirmmidsouth.com\/about-the-cochran-firm-midsouth\/howard-manis\/\">Firm Mid-South's Managing Partner, Howard Manis<\/a>, is one of the attorneys handling a majority of the claims being made. He says the pandemic changed some things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spent a lot more time on the phone than we probably would have, because that was the only way\u2014that and our email\u2014to communicate with our clients as to what was going on,\u201d Manis said. \u201cThe court being down may have slowed it a little bit as well, because there was not as much frequency in front of the judge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this case, visit:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.wreg.com\/news\/settlements-from-galilee-cemetery-lawsuit-in-the-works-after-pandemic-related-delays\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The years-long lawsuit over burials at Galilee Memorial Gardens may be coming to an end soon. In March 2020, LaTaria Smith couldn\u2019t find her mom and daughter\u2019s graves. Smith is one of hundreds of plaintiffs who\u00a0filed suit over how graves and burials were mishandled at Galilee over the years. They claimed graves were left unmarked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/memphis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}