UC Hastings College of the Law officially renamed itself the College of the Law, San Francisco on Jan. 1, after a California judge rejected a legal challenge seeking to halt the name change.
On Friday, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer denied a request for a preliminary injunction from a group of alumni and descendants of the school’s founder, former Chief Justice Serranus Hastings. A report commissioned by the school found Hastings was complicit in atrocities against Yuki Indians in Northeast Mendocino County in the 1850s and 1860s.
