Termination for violation of a healthcare system’s conflict of interest policy is a sufficient non-pretextual defense to defeat a retaliation claim from a fired employee, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held.  The Court has affirmed a District Court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the employer.

The IRS will revise the charitable tax exemption application for small organizations, according to a report in the Bloomberg BNA Daily Tax Report.

It will add questions to the Form 1023-EZ on gross receipts and asset values to ascertain whether the organization meets the qualifications for filing — having and expecting income of less than $50,000 a year for the first three years and having assets of less than $250,000.  It will also add a field to report the mission and significant activities of the organization.

A federal District Court in Seattle has dismissed a suit by a disappointed grant applicant who claimed her Constitutional rights were violated when her application was denied.

A donor who claimed that her gifts to two nonprofit organizations were conditioned upon the organizations’ keeping their executive director for at least a year has been denied any recovery of her gifts, even though the executive director was fired in less than a year.  An appellate court in Missouri has affirmed a trial court dismissal for lack of standing.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has reversed an Obama-era policy of having corporate defendants fund nonprofit organizations as a part of settlements of claims for civil or criminal liability.  In a policy memorandum issued June 5, the Attorney General said the practice will stop immediately.

A fired chief operating officer of a nonprofit provider of mental health services may pursue not only whistleblower protection claims but also racketeering claims against employers who, she claimed, had illegally “lured” her into her position at an agency diverting Medicaid funds away from program and into private hands.  A federal District Court in Philadelphia has refused to grant motions to dismiss by several of the defendants.

A ten-year volunteer for the Dallas Symphony has lost his claim for defamation and conspiracy to defame against the Symphony and a local magazine after his termination was reported in the magazine.  An appellate court in Texas has granted their motion to dismiss on appeal from a trial court denial.  But the Court of Appeal said it did not have jurisdiction to grant the Symphony’s motion to dismiss the volunteer’s claim for tortious interference with his employment.