The trial court that recently ruled that the New York Attorney General did not have grounds to force a judicial dissolution of the National Rifle Association ( See Nonprofit Issues ® , Vol. XXXII, No. 2 ) has denied counterclaims by the NRA seeking to dismiss the entire case as unconstitutionally retaliatory or selective. The Court has ruled that the AG may continue to pursue a variety of other claims against the organization and individual defendants. In reviewing a motion to dismiss, the Court said, it had to accept the factual allegations of the complaint as true and give the plaintiff the benefit of every possible favorable inference, but need not give credit to claims that are either “...

A federal District Court in Pennsylvania has dismissed a hostile work environment claim brought against a behavioral health facility by a black woman aide because “an objectively reasonable caretaker would not have been detrimentally affected” by her patient’s regular race-based harassment. Tondalaya Davis took a job at Elwyn Institute in 2018 to help patients in its New Beginnings Program. The Institute provides long-term residential care for severely impaired patients in a “step-down” program transitioning patients from a state mental hospital to a return to the community. She took the job from a similar position at another organization. She was assigned to work the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m...