A taxpayer who claimed a variety of charitable contribution deductions has learned the hard way that contributions are not deductible if you don’t follow the rules.  The Tax Court has sustained a decision of the Internal Revenue Service to deny more than $6500 in claimed charitable contribution deductions.

An unsuccessful applicant of a grant cannot force the dissolution of the foundation that declined to make it and the transfer of the foundation’s assets to itself, even after several attempts, an appellate court in Louisiana has ruled.  It has dismissed the latest of several lawsuits seeking the same relief from the courts.

A federal District Court in Pennsylvania has dismissed a hostile work environment claim brought against a behavioral health facility by a black woman aide because “an objectively reasonable caretaker would not have been detrimentally affected” by her patient’s regular race-based harassment.

How much does it cost in legal fees and costs to take a case to the U.S. Supreme Court?

It is hard to tell exactly, but the Thomas More Law Center, one of the two plaintiffs that took the Schedule B case to the U.S. Supreme Court and won the right to not file its list of donors with the California Attorney General in order to qualify for charitable solicitation rights within the state, has asked for an award of $5,145,434.07.  A federal District Court in California has awarded $2,840,603.13.

The Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act does not expand the scope of standing to allow potential beneficiaries of charitable funds to sue a charity for mismanagement of those funds, an appellate court in Colorado has ruled.  It has affirmed a trial court dismissal of a claim by donors to the University of Colorado Foundation that mismanagement had cost the Foundation over $1 billion in unrealized revenue.