A union member may compel a union, incorporated under the Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Act, to provide a membership list including names and email addresses, but the union did not violate the law by submitting a proposal to the members to become an unincorporated association, according to the Court of Appeals of Oregon.

The fired deputy director of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Wisconsin cannot recover damages from co-workers who he claimed tortiously interfered with his at-will employment, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.  The statements they made during consideration of the deputy director’s status were substantially true, it said.

Interpreting what it believed state courts would hold, the Court said the employee could not collect when the statements were substantially true, “no matter the motives underlying those statements.”

How extensive is the authority of the board of directors of a nonprofit corporation to act? 

The Salvation Army office in New York cannot open an estate proceeding that gave $1.5 million to a community foundation in Ohio for the benefit of two local Salvation Army organizations, a Court of Appeals has held.

Real estate occupied solely by a wholly controlled subsidiary of a volunteer fire company is not exempt from real estate taxes in Pennsylvania, the state’s Commonwealth Court has held.

The New York Court of Appeals has reversed decisions by both a trial court and appellate court and has held that a youth hockey league is not responsible for the criminal conduct of fans who got into a fight after a tournament game for 13-yer-olds.  The Court of Appeals has held that the criminal assault on the plaintiff was not a reasonably foreseeable result of any failure to take preventive measures by the league.

The director of a nonprofit corporation seeking a judicial dissolution of the corporation has standing to continue the case even after being removed from the board after filing the complaint, according to the Court of Appeals of Arizona.  It has reversed a trial court decision dismissing the case on summary judgment and ordering the plaintiff to pay attorneys fees to the organization.  (Workman v. Verde Wellness Center, Ct. of App., AZ, No.