Another federal District Court in Maryland (Matthew J. Maddox) has enjoined the further dismantling of Americorps, saying that it could not be bound by a separate case currently stayed by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

An appellate court in Wisconsin has ruled that an under construction but not yet occupied hospital building is not eligible for charitable real estate tax exemption under state law.  The Court has affirmed a trial court summary judgment denying the claim for exemption by Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin for its new tower building in Wauwatosa.

Southern Methodist University was originally founded in 1911 as a Texas nonprofit corporation.  Its organizing documents provided that it was to be “owned, controlled, and managed by the Texas Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.”  The charter named the initial trustees of the University and provided that their successors would be selected in the manner determined by the Conferences.  The articles of incorporation were amended in 1916 to provide that no further amendments would be valid without the approval of the Conferences.

The federal District Court in MA (Allison D. Burroughs) has granted a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Trump Administration’s Proclamation purporting to suspend Harvard University’s right to admit and educate foreign students.

The Court found:

A trustee of a nonprofit private secondary school is not an “agent” subject to protection from retaliation under the federal False Claims Act, a federal District Court in South Carolina has ruled.  The trustee’s claim has been dismissed on summary judgment.