About 400 alumni and supporters of the Kamehameha Schools rallied in San Francisco yesterday to protest a recent court ruling that struck down the school's policy of giving admissions preference to students of Native Hawaiian ancestry.

Donning red and black T-shirts reading, "Ku I Ka Pono," or "Stand for justice," the protesters marched past the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, home to the three-judge panel that handed down the ruling.
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Retired Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Fernandez, a Kamehameha alumnus, said yesterday that the court's ruling incorrectly applied laws aimed to protect blacks in the wake of the Civil War, and that they were not meant to prevent Native Hawaiians from preserving their heritage.

"It is not Congress' intent to apply an anti-slavery statute to a private person who uses her Hawaiian ancestral land to provide education to Hawaiian children," Fernandez said.