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Thu 11 Nov 2007Court rejects organ retention damages claimThe Supreme Court has ruled a Dublin couple is not entitled to damages from the National Maternity Hospital for nervous shock over the retention in 1988 of some of the organs of their stillborn daughter.However, it refused the hospital's application to award costs against the couple and ruled the parties should pay their own costs.