While funeral industry leaders and regulators expressed horror at the discovery this week of more than 280 bodies in the woods near a Georgia crematory, saying they had never heard of such an extreme example of misfeasance, they acknowledged that it was far from an isolated incident.
So the case against it is of "misfeasance" in public office, a rare allegation that legal experts say is hard to establish.
But true to form, now that its misfeasance is public, Reno Justice is launching its own "criminal investigation," the intent of which is to seize control of the productive civil case until after the coming election.
"You either believe it was incredible incompetence, misfeasance or carelessness.
They are also bringing claims for deceit, assault, misfeasance in public office and negligence.
His lawyer said he "is not aware of any ongoing investigation by insolvency practitioners for 'possible misfeasance'".
You have been strangely reluctant to address misfeasance at the top of the chain of command.
The claimants had accused Mr Byers of "misfeasance in public office".
His goal, he declared, was "to protect ballplayers from misfeasance, nonfeasance, and malfesance".
Journalistic misfeasance that results from what one might broadly consider working conditions may be explainable, but it isn't excusable.
