The suspension of membership rights in a voluntary nonprofit association is not a denial of property under the Texas state Constitution, an appellate court in Texas has held.  It has dismissed a plaintiff’s claim that his rights had been denied without due process of law.

An employee of a foundation who complained of being fired for reporting alleged fundraising violations has a private right of action under the whistleblower protection provisions of the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, an appellate court in the state has ruled.

When the defendant in a criminal case in Colorado wanted to get rid of a GPS ankle monitoring device he was wearing as a condition of his pre-trial bond, he presented a falsified court order to an employee of a private nonprofit organization operating the pre-trial program.  On the basis of the fake order, the employee removed the ankle bracelet.

Real estate owned by Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education, is immune from real estate taxes as a governmental entity, not exempt as a charitable organization, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has ruled.  It has overturned two unreported prior cases to reach its decision.

The director of planned giving at a nonprofit school of engineering who files a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission about the school’s administration of a charitable remainder trust does not qualify as a “whistleblower” entitled to protection under the Dodd-Frank Act, a federal District Court in Wisconsin has held.