The will setting up the estate left a large amount of latitude to the trustees as to what the makeup of the school would be, saying "orphans, and indigent children, with preference to Hawaiians", but letting the trustees do what they thought was proper. Considering the tax-free status of the trust, the dumbass trustees should do what I proposed in a previous post, and open the school up to everybody, based strictly on an admissions test - or start paying taxes on the estate's income.
Bernice Pauahi Bishop's will and benefaction is the most noble gift to Hawaii's people. It's been taken over long ago. The problem lies with the trustees. A drop of Hawaiian blood ......doesn't cut it. Surpassing admission standards.....doesn't mean admission. It's a club.
What stuns me is the ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court. I think they got this one right.