No Hastings - Part 2

Hastings

Blog readers may recall that the name of the Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco - which is administered by the UC Regents - was changed to the UC School of Law.* This change occurred during a period when various names were being changed due to the histories of whoever was involved. In this case, Serranus Hastings had given money to establish the school back in the 19th century and there was litigation filed by his descendents objecting to the name change. Calls to change the name go back at least to 2021.

The case wended its way through the courts and last week, the California Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from lower court decisions that had approved the change in name.

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Source: https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-supreme-court-lets-decision-stand-scrubbing-hastings-name-uc-law-school-0. 

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2024/02/no-hastings.html for Part 1. Type "Hastings" into the search engine for this blog for various earlier postings about this issue.