NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES ARE SUING THE UCSD OVER HUMAN REMAINS FOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY HOUSE IN 1976

The Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee filed the complaint on April 13 with the United States District Court. The lawsuit says that the University of California has refused to repatriate, or return, the 9,000-year-old remains to the Kumeyaay tribe, on whose land the bones were found. According to the Courthouse News Service, UCSD prepared to give back the human remains in January 2012, following the guidelines of a National Park Service regulation. The return was blocked by three University of California professors who had prepared to file a temporary restraining order... Read the full story here.