By Angelique Gingras, Capital News Service
The fight over a historic Black cemetery in Bethesda is now in the hands of the Maryland Supreme Court, as justices weigh the need to preserve a burial ground against the rights of the property owner who wants to sell it.
Legal counsel for the current property owner argued before the court Monday that the mere sale of the property doesn’t threaten the rights of those buried in the cemetery – now covered partly by the paved parking lot of an apartment building.
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