Ulmer ruled Tuesday that an 1878 law that said the school 'shall forever be known' by Hastings' name wasn't a binding contract and could be amended or repealed, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
But historians say Hastings helped orchestrate and finance campaigns by white settlers in Mendocino County to kill and enslave members of the Yuki tribe at a time when California had legalized lynch mob attacks on Natives, along with kidnapping and forced servitude, in what some state leaders openly called a war of extermination.
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