Controversy over California girl declared brain-dead after a tonsillectomy

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Updated January 9, 2014 at 1:00 AM

Nailah Winkfield (R), mother of Jahi McMath, and Martin Winkfield arrive at the U.S. District Courthouse for a settlement conference in Oakland, California, January 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach)

A photograph of 13-year-old Jahi McMath is seen on a necklace in Oakland, California in this December 24, 2013 file photo. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam/Files)

File - This undated file photo provided by the McMath family and Omari Sealey shows Jahi McMath. Jahi was declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy. (AP Photo/Courtesy of McMath Family and Omari Sealey, File)

Attorney Christopher Dolan, left, representing the family of Jahi McMath, gestures beside Omari Sealey, Jahi's uncle, during a media conference Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Nailah Winkfield, right, mother of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, touches her husband Marvin Winkfield as they wait outside a courtroom Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Omari Sealey, at right, shakes hands with well-wishers Frank Somerville, at left, and his daughter Callie, 9, after Sealy made a statement for the media on the condition of his niece Jahi McMath on Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Nailah Winkfield, the mother of Jahi McMath, along with Jahi's uncle Omari Sealy (R), speak with the media outside Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland, California, December 30, 2013. (REUTERS/Norbert von der Groeben)

(L-R) Sandra Chatman, grandmother of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, attorney Christopher Dolan and Omari Sealey, uncle of McMath, embrace each other after a court hearing in Oakland, California December 24, 2013. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam)

The family of a California teenager who was declared brain-dead after suffering complications from sleep apnea surgery is seeking an unprecedented court order declaring her alive, the family's lawyer said Thursday.

Attorney Chris Dolan said doctors at the non-profit International Brain Research Foundation have found signs of brain functions after running a series of tests on the girl at Rutgers University last week.

The discovery came months after three doctors, including one appointed by a judge, declared Jahi McMath, 13, brain dead and Alameda County issued a death certificate after her Dec. 9 surgery went awry. (AP)

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