Can the subordinates of a branch supervisor of a nonprofit welfare services provider create such a hostile work environment that the supervisor has a viable claim against her employer for discrimination based on race, sex, and national origin?
The trustee seeking to recover assets to settle a Ponzi scheme bankruptcy may seek to recover payments to charities despite a retroactive change in the Minnesota Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act designed to give charities extra protection, the Bankruptcy Court in Minnesota has ruled. The Court has rejected motions to dismiss claims by the trustee in the Petters bankruptcy to recover payments to three charities that were made pursuant to promissory notes issued by Petters organizations and contributed to the charities by independent donors.
A private nonprofit agency may refuse to hire a new employee who has recently filed for bankruptcy, despite a provision in the Bankruptcy Code stating that no private employer may discriminate against an individual “with respect to employment” because of a bankruptcy, a federal District Court in Pennsylvania has held. It has based its decision on a prior case in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that had enunciated the rule.
An appellate court in Mississippi has remanded the appeal of a woman who claimed she was improperly ousted as president of a high school alumni association. The Court said that the record did not contain verified documents on which it could make a decision.
The “suspicious timing” of an employee’s termination 48 days after she filed a workers’ compensation claim is not “in and of itself” sufficient to preclude a summary judgment for the employer, an appellate court in Illinois has held. It has affirmed a trial court’s dismissal of a claim for retaliatory discharge brought by the former employee.
A criminal defendant convicted of aggravated identity theft has lost an attack on a two-level enhancement of his sentence because he pretended to act on behalf of a fake charity.
Jonathan Webster pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of individual identities with false offers of lending a helping hand. He had created websites for fake charities and invited recently unemployed people to apply for financial aid. The Court imposed a 132-month sentence.
A religious association that falsely purported to be a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery has been ordered to pay more than $71,000 in punitive damages to a couple who made substantial payments to the association on the basis of the misrepresentation. An appellate court in Connecticut has affirmed a trial court decision that also ordered the association to pay more than $207,000 in compensatory damages. (Wagner v.
When Sister George Marie Attea, a long-time professed nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Buffalo, NY, died in 2014, she left a will and a probate estate of nearly $2 million, to be divided among her brothers, the husband of her deceased sister, the Congregation, and a number of Catholic charities.
