The trial court that recently ruled that the New York Attorney General did not have grounds to force a judicial dissolution of the National Rifle Association (See Nonprofit Issues^®, Vol. XXXII, No. 2) has denied counterclaims by the NRA seeking to dismiss the entire case as unconstitutionally retaliatory or selective.  The Court has ruled that the AG may continue to pursue a variety of other claims against the organization and individual defendants.

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.