From the Trustees: KS sues John Doe for Breach of Contract; Receives demand letter threatening new lawsuit from Eric Grant

August 6, 2008

Kamehameha Schools is seeking an unspecified amount of monetary damages based on comments made to the Honolulu Advertiser by one of the Does’ attorneys, John Goemans, in February of this year. Under the terms of the agreement, the Does agreed to be held liable for any breaches of confidentiality by their legal counsel. This includes Goemans, who was one of the attorneys of record throughout the four-year-long litigation.

In a separate and unrelated action, Kamehameha Schools has received a demand letter from Eric Grant and Honolulu attorney David Rosen on behalf of four unnamed applicants who claim they were denied admission to our campus programs under our admissions preference policy. In the letter, Grant and Rosen declared their intent to file suit against Kamehameha Schools if we refuse to admit their unnamed potential plaintiffs. Clearly, we cannot comply. We have no idea if any of the students qualified for admission, or even applied to our campus programs.

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