A trial judge in New York has banned former Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre from serving in any fiduciary capacity with the National Rifle Association for the next 10 years, but has refused to appoint a monitor to review the operations of the organization as had been requested by New York state Attorney General Letitia James.  The Court has asked the parties to agree on lesser enforceable remedies to assure that future operations are compliant with the law.

The American Association of University Women, a nonprofit membership association that has been working for more than 135 years to eliminate barriers to women’s educational access and economic opportunity, has settled a suit against it by agreeing to drop a requirement that an applicant for a fellowship program must be from “an underrepresented racial/ethnic background.”

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.