Mark A. Flomenbaum, the former Chief Medical Examiner who was dismissed after the office of the Chief Medical Examiner was revealed to be an unsanitary hellhole, is suing because he feels "Governor Deval Patrick lacked grounds to dismiss him."

Okay, okay, all charges alleged. But a body went missing. The Herald reported blood on the floor and a "constant stench of decomposition." If that's not grounds for dismissal, then what is? In terms of sheer volume, there were a lot of problems reported at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

More from the Globe on the lawsuit:

Flomenbaum says he signed a five-year agreement and could only be fired for serious wrongdoing or mismanagement and that the episode with the missing body did not rise to that.

Try telling that to the family members of that missing body. And tell that to the family who discovered that the body of their loved one actually belonged to someone else. Maybe the underfunding and mismanagement simply culminated under Flomenbaum, and he was the one unlucky enough to be in charge at the time. But misplacing a corpse isn't your garden-variety mistake.

The Supreme Judicial Court will hear the case in May.

All charges of wrongdoing or mismanagement alleged and will get worked out in court. But dead bodies don't swap themselves. Image of The Corpse Vanishes from Amazon.