Marie Robertson's heirs sued Princeton over her $35 million gift in 2002 and settled in 2008 with $40 million in legal fees repaid

In 1961 Charles and Marie Robertson gave $35 million to expand the graduate program of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. Marie was an heir to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company fortune^†. The gift was held by the Robertson Foundation, whose board mixed family members and Princeton appointees^†. The school's building was renamed Robertson Hall in 1988. In July 2002 dissenting family members on the foundation board sued Princeton, saying the school had stopped training students for careers in government as the donors intended. The case ran six years. On 10 December 2008 the parties settled. The Robertson Foundation was dissolved and its assets moved into a Princeton endowed fund under the university's sole control. The foundation repaid the Banbury Fund, a Robertson family foundation, $40 million in legal fees over three years, and from 2012 paid $50 million over seven years to a new family foundation for government-service training. Princeton President Shirley Tilghman called it "tragic" that the suit consumed "tens of millions of dollars in legal fees." The gift had grown to about $900 million^†.