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Judge allows parts of islander suit alleging discrimination
April 11, 2021
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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) A federal judge is letting part of a lawsuit proceed alleging a Georgia county denied services to residents of Sapelo Island in part because they are Black, but with fewer plaintiffs.
The Brunswick News reports U.S. District Judge Stan Baker said some issues in the five-year-old lawsuit need to be decided by a jury, but said 19 of the 41 original plaintiffs had no standing to sue.
That s because lawyers for McIntosh County, the defendant, said there s no record of ownership in some properties that now-dismissed plaintiffs are paying taxes on. That reflects a common problem in the Black community, when a property owner dies and leaves land to heirs, sometimes without a will. The heirs often do not obtain legal title to the land. ....

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