Descendants of Hastings Lose Fight at Supreme Court Over Law School Name Change

Descendants of Hastings Lose Fight at Supreme Court Over Law School Name Change

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to review the case brought by six descendants of Serranus Hastings and a group of alumni of the UC law school arguing that the state violated its own law in stripping the Hastings name from the school three years ago.

SCOTUS allows Hastings name change to remain at University of California law school

The University of California College of the Law at San Francisco can retain its new name, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting a challenge by its former namesake’s descendants after revelations that Serranus C. Hastings ordered troops to slaughter thousands of Native Americans in the 1860s.

Supreme Court Ends UC Law SF Name Change Challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected descendants' bid to restore Serranus Hastings' name on San Francisco's 148-year-old law school.