Updated at 3:12 p.m., Thursday, August 11, 2005
Court denies request to immediately enroll non-Hawaiian
By Ken Kobayashi
Advertiser Courts Writer
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Appeals court clerk's office said the request was denied.
The lawyers for the unnamed youth asked the appeals court to send the case back to the U. S. District Court in Hawai'i so that they could ask a judge to enforce last week's 2-1 decision. The majority declared that the school's admission policy of admitting only students with Hawaiian blood was in violation of federal civil rights law.
"We're dissapointed," said Scramento lawyer Eric Grant and one the boy's attorneys, "We don't know yet what we're going to do."
The teenager's lawyers wanted to ask the judge for a court order directing Kamehameha to admit the boy immediately for his senior year. Classes started at the school's Maui campus today and will start next week at the school's flagship Kapalama campus and its Big Island campus .
Kamehameha Schools officials have said they opposed the request to return the case to the trial court. They contended the case should remain with the appeals court so they could ask that a larger panel of 11 judges rehear the case.
