The Supreme Court, by a 7-2 vote, has held that Missouri may not prohibit a church from applying for a grant to improve its school playground simply because it is a church organization. The policy violates the “Free Exercise” clause of the First Amendment, the Court has said.
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.
