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.

Counselor/parents at a nonprofit residential treatment facility for delinquent and dependent boys may pursue overtime pay and retaliation claims under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, a federal District Court in Pennsylvania has held.  It has refused to grant motions for summary judgment in favor of the defendant employers.

The First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that flamboyant and controversial Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage had qualified immunity when he threatened a nonprofit charter school with losing a $1 million grant if it hired a political opponent as its new president.  A divided panel of the Court has affirmed a trial court decision dismissing a claim by the Democratic Speaker of the House who claimed the action violated his Constitutional rights under Section 1983.

The Minnesota Tax Court has denied a full fair market value charitable contribution deduction for the gift of a digitized collection of family vital records to the Luxembourg America Cultural Society in Wisconsin.  The Court has agreed with the state Commissioner of Revenue that the collection was ordinary income property and not capital gain property.