An appellate court in Virginia has held that four members of the Virginia Military Institute Alumni Association, including one intending to run for a seat on its board of directors, are not entitled to disclosure of email addresses of the other members under the state’s Nonstock Corporation Act.  In a divided opinion, it has affirmed a trial court decision that a member’s statutory rights to inspect the records of members does not extend to the members’ email addresses.

A successor trustee and attorney-in-fact cannot delete charitable beneficiaries designated by an incapacitated settlor of the trust to name himself as beneficiary when the settlor dies, an appellate court in the District of Columbia has ruled.  It has affirmed a trial court summary judgment and agreed that the trustee/attorney-in-fact did not act in accordance with the settlor’s reasonable expectations.

The board of directors of a nonprofit university alumni association has no fiduciary duty to the members of the association, a Court of Appeals in Texas has ruled.

When Mindy Lee was terminated as a volunteer for the Animal Aid clinic in Florida, she allegedly began to defame the clinic and was sued for defamation. 

Total revenue received by private foundations rose nearly 22% between 2019 and 2020 while the number of private foundations increased by less than 1%, according to Internal Revenue Service statistics published recently.  Total revenue jumped from $141.7 trillion in 2019 to $171.3 trillion in 2020, while the number of foundations edged up very slightly, from 103,299 in 2019 to 103,968 in 2020.