Bone Bungling (legal/desecration)

Native Americans get short shrift as LA Plaza downtown opens under a cloud

http://www.laweekly.com/2011-04-14/news/bone-bungling-at-old-cemetery/

The law — California Health and Safety Code 7050.5.b — is clear. When human remains are found during a project excavation "in any location other than a dedicated cemetery," all work must stop. But what if the discovery occurs in an old Catholic cemetery in downtown L.A. that supposedly had been emptied of all human remains? And what if many skeletons were Native Americans who converted to Christianity?