A trial court in Michigan may tell an incorporated church to hold a new annual election for directors and may tell the church that certain members may vote in the election, an appellate court has held.  The ecclesiastical abstention did not apply to questions of interpretation of the state nonprofit corporation law.

Although the U.S. Supreme Court has expanded the scope of the “ministerial exemption” that exempts churches and religious schools from employment discrimination suits by certain “ministerial” employees (See Nonprofit Issues^® Vol.

The American Italian Women for Greater New Haven have standing to complain about the removal of a statue of Christopher Columbus from a town square but have no claim sufficient to proceed with the case, the federal District Court in Connecticut has ruled.  It has dismissed a suit brought by the women against the City of New Haven.

A assistant to the chief financial officer of a nonprofit organization who was passed over for promotion to the CFO position and locked out of her computer access while out on medical leave has lost a claim for retaliation under the Family and Medical Leave Act.  A federal District Court in Pennsylvania has held that she showed a prima facie case of retaliation but failed to show that the agency’s purported non-discriminatory reasons for its actions were merely pretextual.

The Attorney General for the District of Columbia may proceed with a suit to dissolve a nonprofit fiscal sponsor that it claims provided more than $4 million in grants, constituting more than 99% of its total grantmaking, to a related for-profit corporation, the District’s Court of Appeals has ruled.