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Constitutional Law

Dec. 6, 2006

Narrow Ruling Backs School's Race Policy

A sharply divided federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a private school's admission policy that favors native Hawaiians.

By Amelia Hansen
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      A sharply divided federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a private school's admission policy that favors native Hawaiians.
      In an 8-7 ruling, an en banc panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a slavery-era civil rights law barring racial discrimination does not apply to the "Hawaiian first" admission policy of the Kameham...

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