CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

Harvard University can be sued by families who allege their loved ones' remains were mishandled and sold on the black market by the medical school and its former morgue director, the state's highest court ruled Monday.

Cedric Lodge, the former manager of the morgue, pleaded guilty earlier this year to trafficking stolen human body parts. He is awaiting sentencing.

The state's highest court ruled the families' lawsuits against Lodge and Harvard Medical School can move forward.

Remains stolen and sold by Lodge were taken from the morgue in Boston to locations in Salem, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.

Lodge admitted to having sold remains to Joshua Taylor and Andrew Ensanian, among others.

Many of the remains purchased from Lodge were resold for a profi

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