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Board can’t pass standards expressly delegated to committee

Board can’t pass standards expressly delegated to committee

Board can’t pass standards expressly delegated to committee

The board of directors of a nonprofit medical association has no authority to establish standards for the appointment of psychoanalytic training analysts when the bylaws of the corporation expressly assign the duty to set training standards to a committee, an appellate court in New York has affirmed. Members of the American Psychoanalytic Association, a New York not-for-profit corporation, challenged standards established by the executive council (the board of directors) of the Association. A trial court held that the standards were null and void and enjoined the Association from implementing any new standards or certifying any new training analysts by any method other than that approved by...

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