The sons of former Cooper University Health System CEO John Sheridan Jr. have asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to reverse the state medical examiner’s determination that their father’s death was a suicide.

The four sons—Mark, Matthew, Daniel and Timothy Sheridan—want assistant state medical examiner Eddy Lilavois to change the cause of death to “undetermined” on their father’s death certificate and final autopsy report. The brothers’ legal battle has taken a convoluted path, with appeals of the autopsy report and death certificate proceeding separately. The autopsy report matter is pending before the Supreme Court while the appeal of the death certificate is pending before the Appellate Division.

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