After a Missouri charity hired a for-profit company to run its car donation program, the Better Business Bureau in Greater St. Louis issued a warning to consumers, urging them to exercise “caution” when dealing with the organization because the for-profit fundraising company had been “criticized for alleged improprieties in running similar programs.”

The charity sued the BBB for tortious interference with business expectancy and injurious falsehood.  A federal District Court has dismissed the case.

The volunteer president of a fraternity house corporation is protected by the federal Volunteer Protection Act from a claim of defamation, a state appellate court in Indiana has held.  It has affirmed a decision of a trial court dismissing the claim against the officer who was trying to mediate a dispute between two student members at Valparaiso University.

The daughter of the sole shareholder of a nonprofit church corporation who inherits shares in the corporation from her father’s estate does not have a sufficient interest to create standing to sue her brother for embezzlement from the church, a federal District Court in Kansas has ruled.

Heather Bivens, the Associate Senior Vice President for Quality Assurance of a nonprofit provider of services to persons with disabilities, was let go when her male supervisor was told to cut $100,000 out of the department’s budget.  She was let go instead of a much younger man who had only a few years of work experience and was allegedly “over his head” in the job.  A federal District Court in New York has allowed her to challenge her termination on the basis of gender discrimination.