On Wednesday, an attorney filed a suit in federal court, claiming four children were illegally discriminated against by the school's Hawaiian preference admissions policy.

Kamehameha Schools has filed another lawsuit of its own. The school's suit is against the very group it settled with back in May 2007. The plaintiffs, known only as John and Jane Doe, had challenged the school's Hawaiian-first admission policy.

The school eventually paid them $7 million to settle. That amount was then disclosed to the media by attorney John Goemans. The school claims that information was protected by a confidentiality clause in the agreement. Now, it's suing the plaintiffs for the breach.

"It's a breach of an agreement and settlement," said Kamehameha Schools Trustee Nainoa Thompson, "and it's something we believe taking legal action is in the best interest of the institution."

"There was nothing to breach," said Goemans. "The only people who could breach it were the signatures Jane Doe, or her counsel I'm not her counsel, Eric Grant, or Jane Doe, and there wasn't any confidential agreement when Eric Grant told me what the settlement amount was therefore there was no breach."

Eric Grant was one of the attorneys in that John Doe case. Grant is now also representing four children in the other suit we mentioned. The suit is nearly identical to the one settled last year. Grant claims the children were discriminated against by the school. He wants to end the schools Hawaiian first admissions policy.

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