United States Ninth Circuit

A private, nonsectarian, commercially operated school, which receives no federal funds, may not purposefully exclude a student qualified for admission solely because he is not of pure or part aboriginal blood.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/20/2006
• Decided 08/02/2005
• Published 08/02/2005

Judges

• Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and HARRY PREGERSON, STEPHEN REINHARDT, ALEX KOZINSKI, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, PAMELA ANN RYMER, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, SUSAN P. GRABER, WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, RICHARD A. PAEZ, MARSHA S. BERZON, RICHARD C. TALLMAN, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, JAY S. BYBEE, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eric Grant, Sacramento, CA; John W. Goemans, Kamuela, Hawaii; Michael Stokes Paulsen, Minneapolis, MN, for the plaintiff-appellant., Patrick M.K. Richardson, McCracken, Byers & Haesloop LLP, San Mateo, CA;  Mark J. Bennett, Attorney General, State of Hawaii, Girard D. Lau, Deputy Attorney General, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI;  Alexander E. Dreier, Hogan & Hartson LLP, Washington, DC;  Jeffrey N. Watanabe, Honolulu, HI;  David M. Forman, Honolulu, HI;  Wayne M. Pitluck, Pitluck, Kido, Stone & Aipa LLP, Honolulu, HI;  Richard A. Guest, Native AmericanRights Fund, Washington, DC, and Carol H. Daniel, Alaskan Federation of Natives, Anchorage, AK;  Carrie K.S. Okinaga, Corporation Counsel for the City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI;  Moses K.N. Haia III, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, Honolulu, HI;  Clayton A. Kamida, Torkildson, Katz, Fonseca, Moore & Hetherington, Honolulu, HI;  John Ishihara, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Honolulu, HI;  Eric K. Yamamoto, Honolulu, HI, for amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanford, California;  David Schulmeister, Cades Schutte LLP, Honolulu, HI, for the defendants-appellees.