Attorneys suing McIntosh County, Georgia, over zoning changes that they say threaten one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants asked a superior court judge Tuesday to let them correct technical problems with their civil complaint to avoid having it dismissed.

A lawyer for the coastal 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.