Updated at 3:38 p.m., Friday, March 2, 2007
High court asked to hear Kamehameha admissions case
Advertiser Staff
Lawyers for an unnamed teenager have requested that the U.S. Supreme Court review their challenge to Kamehameha Schools admissions policy giving preference to Native Hawaiians.Attorneys Eric Grant of Sacramento and John Goemans of Hawai'i filed their petition Thursday asking the high court to review the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the admissions policy.
The appeals court's ruling in December said the policy did not violate federal civil rights law.
The lawyers said the high court is expected to decide before summer recess in late June whether to take up the case.
