An appellate court in Louisiana has held that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has appropriately followed its own internal rules in suspending a “lifetime” member for five years for conduct “inimical to the best interests” of the Association. The Court upheld the action to suspend the rights of Ernest L. Johnson, a former member of the national board of directors.

A New Mexico trial court has authority to require a party to litigation to make a contribution to charity as part of an order imposing civil sanctions on the party for contempt of court.  The state’s Court of Appeals has affirmed a trial court order requiring a party to make a $50,000 contribution to charity to purge his civil contempt violation.

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.