Two volunteer firefighters who claimed that the remuneration and benefits they received from their volunteer firefighter services are sufficient to make the “employees” for purposes of Title VII harassment and retaliation claims have seen their claims survive a motion to dismiss in federal court.

Twenty-four parking spaces in a church parking lot leased to students for most of the week are properly denied real estate tax exemption, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire has held.

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has held that names of volunteer archers and landowners who participated in a municipal deer control program are protected from disclosure under the “donor” provision of the state’s Right To Know Law.

A federal District Court in Minnesota has affirmed a Bankruptcy Court decision refusing to join more than 180 separate Catholic affiliates in the bankruptcy proceeding of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.  The Court has ruled that the action would violate the Bankruptcy Code’s prohibition against involuntary bankruptcies against a corporation that is not “a moneyed, business or commercial corporation.”

An appellate court in Arkansas has refused to grant charitable immunity to a nonprofit nursing home accused of abusing the charitable form to avoid liability for the death of a resident.  The Court has affirmed a trial court decision holding that material issues of fact prevent the grant of a summary judgment.

A Muslim religious organization has been allowed to proceed with a Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act claim against a suburban Philadelphia township after the township denied a variance to build a mosque within the municipality.  A federal District Court in Philadelphia has said the complaint filed by the U.S.

The board of directors of a private nonprofit college in Oklahoma is not a “suable entity” and a discrimination case brought by a former college employee against the institution and its board of directors must be dismissed as against the board itself, a federal District Court in Oklahoma has held.