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West Palm Beach, FL - Menorah Gardens cemetery will be rededicated this morning, after lawsuits of grave desecration. Court-appointed examiner Richard O. Baldwin has declared that the remediation efforts are satisfactory and management can be released to Palm Beach Gardens-based SCI Funeral Services of Florida.

A class action suit claimed that Menorah Gardens and SCI desecrated cemetery sites, misplaced bodies, oversold plots and removed bodies from burial sites at the Menorah Gardens cemetery locations in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. It was settled for $100 million.

A similar, separate suit, representing 72 families, was also settled.

Under state supervision and a blue ribbon panel, SCI is spending millions of dollars to fix existing problems and to reorganize its cemeteries to ensure that all graves are marked properly, attorneys who filed the class action suit said.

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