San Francisco -- A divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Hawaiian private school can favor Hawaiian natives for admission to help a downtrodden indigenous population. The decision by a majority of a 15-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the court's three-judge decision that the Kamehameha Schools policy amounted to unlawful discrimination. The majority noted that the case, brought by a white student excluded because of his race, was unique because Congress has singled out the plight of native Hawaiians as they have with Alaskan natives and American Indians. The policy, the court ruled,...
