Attorneys plan to refile a lawsuit over zoning changes that they say threatens one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants. A Superior Court judge threw out the original civil complaint Tuesday, ruling that the lawsuit improperly named individual commissioners of coastal McIntosh County.
Attorneys plan to refile a lawsuit over zoning changes that they say threatens one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants. A Superior Court judge threw out the original civil complaint Tuesday, ruling that the lawsuit improperly named individual commissioners of coastal McIntosh County. Superior Court Judge Jay Stewart ruled the civil complaint had to be dismissed because of technical errors unrelated to the rights violations it alleged.
His order allows the Southern Poverty Law Center to file a new version of the lawsuit on behalf of residents of the tiny island community of Hogg Hummock. “Under Georgia law, we are permitted to refile within six months, and we plan to file an amended verified complaint,” Miriam Gutman, a lawyer for the residents, said in a statement Wednesda
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