Two parcels of property leased by the University of Chicago to a for-profit child care company are properly subject to real estate tax, an appellate court in Illinois has ruled. 

Kathryn and Matthew Spencer were married in 2000 and during their marriage opened a private school, which was originally organized as a limited liability company and later converted to a nonprofit organization.  When Kathryn filed a petition for dissolution of the marriage in 2018, Matthew agreed that Kathryn should continue to run the school but asked that he be awarded a portion of the value of the school in the divorce settlement.

A member of a nonprofit corporation in Minnesota may not sue individually to complain about the suspension of her membership rights, an appellate court in Minnesota has ruled.  The Court has said that the state’s Nonprofit Corporation Act requires a minimum of 50 members or 10% of the members, whichever is less, to bring a suit seeking equitable remedies.

An unincorporated association formed in Washington, D.C. may pursue a suit against the local transit authority, a federal District Court has ruled, because it appears to be a nonprofit unincorporated association.

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has vacated a trial court decision granting real estate tax exemption for a portion of a building the landowner claimed was used as an actual place of regularly stated religious worship. The School District had appealed on the basis that the landowner had failed to provide in discovery a copy of a stipulation with the Township that she would not use the facility for “religious use.”