The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has affirmed a District Court order invalidating a Federal Election Commission Rule on disclosure of donors for independent political expenditures.  The Court has determined that the statute requires broader disclosure than the FEC had previously required.  If this decision stands, it could require public disclosure of all donors of more than $200 to an organization that makes independent expenditures of more than $250 in a calendar year.

A provision in the Declaration of Covenants of a homeowners’ association requiring approval of 85% of the owners to make any changes has been upheld in Mississippi.  An appellate court has affirmed a trial court decision holding that the provision is unambiguous and reasonable.

A nonprofit library in Maine has been unable to obtain a federal court injunction against a Town seeking to sell its real estate for alleged failure to pay real estate taxes, a federal District Court in Maine has ruled.  It denied the injunction on the basis of the federal Anti-Injunction Act that prohibits federal courts from enjoining “the collection of state taxes.”

The Pennsylvania Legislature, with little publicity or fanfare, has passed two significant changes in the law governing endowments and other restricted funds.