The board of directors of a nonprofit sportsmen’s club has inherent power to suspend an uncooperative member, even where the member has survived a membership vote to dismiss him, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has held.

It has affirmed a trial court decision affirming the member’s suspension and later expulsion when he failed to properly renew his membership.

The Tax Court has held that a filed deed conveying an historic and conservation easement to a qualified enforcement organization constitutes a contemporaneous written acknowledgment of a charitable contribution, despite the failure to obtain a specific letter specifying that no goods or services were given in return.

Nurses working a 37.5 hour work-week may pursue claims for unpaid work of more than 40 hours a week, even though they cannot use the Fair Labor Standards Act case to recover pay for the 2.5 hours before the FLSA can be invoked.  A federal District Court in New York has permitted the case to proceed as a class action based on the nurses’ testimony.