Volunteers for a nonprofit organization providing education and support services for people living with HIV and AIDS are not personally liable to an employee who voluntarily resigned after complaining about a hostile work environment they allegedly created for the employee.

Counsel for Penn State University, who purported to represent university employees at a grand jury investigation into the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, could not provide adequate counsel to them as individuals and was incompetent to testify as to her communications with them, an appellate court in Pennsylvania has ruled.

An alleged violation of a local zoning ordinance is not sufficient to deny real estate tax exemption for a nonprofit low-income housing developer, an appellate court in New York has ruled.  A town’s claim that a property is used for an office and four separate residences when it is zoned only for a two family dwelling does not prove that the use is not charitable. 

Alumnae of Wilson College in Pennsylvania have no standing to contest the state Department of Education’s approval of the College’s decision to become co-educational, the state’s Commonwealth Court has ruled.  They have no personal interest that is affected by the Department’s decision, the Court said.

When the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts acquired substantially all of the assets of Printmaking Workshop, Inc., also a nonprofit corporation, the agreement provided that the foundation had no legal obligation to pay the past debts of the workshop, “but may elect to pay any vendors whose non-payment would provide obstacles to the operations of” a new printmaking workshop of the foundation.