A Head Start program in New York City has lost a motion for summary judgment to dismiss a whistleblower retaliation suit brought by the former executive director under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the economic stimulus act passed at the start of the Obama administration. A federal District Court has ruled that there are material issues of fact concerning the case.
A private foundation in Texas may not sue the University of Alabama in a Texas court for breach of contract for a scholarship program being operated in Alabama, an appellate court in Texas has held. It has reversed a trial court decision allowing the case to proceed.
A nonprofit religious organization, which claimed “church” status during an Internal Revenue Service inquiry about possible excess benefit transactions, is unable to stop IRS subpoenas for financial records held by eight banks. A federal District Court in South Carolina has rejected the group’s efforts to prevent the banks from providing the information.
Reversing a decision by a state appellate court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that a lawyer cannot be liable for legal malpractice to potential third-party beneficiaries of a decedent’s estate when the potential beneficiaries have not been named in testamentary documents actually executed by the decedent.
That’s what the general manager of a car dealership in Savannah, GA, has learned the hard way.
A claim for a $338,000 charitable contribution deduction for the gift of a 50% interest in an airplane has been denied by the Tax Court because it was not accompanied by a statutorily compliant contemporaneous written acknowledgment.
