The chief human relations officer at a nonprofit community hospital in Chicago has lost her claims for whistleblower protection and family medical leave retaliation after being dismissed from her position.  A federal District Court in Illinois has dismissed the claims of Stella Wolf against St. Anthony Hospital on summary judgment.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a new Technical Guide (TG 48) on Unrelated Business Income Tax.  The new technical guides are comprehensive, issue-specific documents that update and combine the Audit Technique Guides with other technical content.  The technical guides replace the corresponding ATGs.
 

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a new Revenue Procedure (2024-5) providing that it will now issue a determination letter to an organization currently recognized as a charity described in section 501(c)(3) of the Tax Code that seeks recognition as an organization described in a different paragraph of section 501(c). 

A disability rights advocacy group lacks standing to seek to enforce alleged accessibility violations of the Fair Housing Amendments Act, a federal District Court in Utah has recently ruled.  It has dismissed a case brought by the Disability Law Center in Salt Lake City against the developers of two residential buildings on the ground that the Center has no standing to sue on its own. 

An appellate court in New York has affirmed the dismissal of counterclaims by the National Rifle Association seeking to throw out a suit by the state Attorney General for widespread and longstanding executive malfeasance.  It has affirmed the traditional standard of needing only to show “probable cause” to overcome a defendant’s claim of retaliatory litigation.