NEWARK (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court will hear a country club’s appeal of orders that it sell back a lease to the state historical agency to provide public access to ancient burial mounds.
In a decision announced Tuesday, the court voted 5-2 to hear the case. A date for the hearing hasn’t been determined.
A Licking County judge ruled in May 2019 that the Ohio History Connection can reclaim the lease for the 2,000-year-old Octagon Mounds from Moundbuilders Country Club via eminent domain.
That ruling was upheld in January by the Ohio Fifth District Court of Appeals.