Hogg Hummock filed a lawsuit against McIntosh County and five commissioners. A 2020 amended state constitution prohibits litigation against naming individual government officers as defendants.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys suing a Georgia county over zoning changes that they say threaten one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants asked a judge Tuesday to let them correct technical problems with their civil complaint to avoid having it dismissed.
A lawyer for coastal McIntosh County argued the judge must throw out the lawsuit because it clashes with a 2020 amendment to Georgia’s state constitution dealing with legal immunity granted to state and local governments.
Residents of the tiny Hogg Hummock community .
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