A trial court in Texas has no jurisdiction to hear a breach of contract suit brought by parents of students expelled from a religious school, the Court of Appeals of Texas has held, because “any decision regarding the merits of this dispute would require judicial intrusion upon [the School’s] entitlement to manage its internal affairs according to its own policies and beliefs.”

Employees getting paid for eight hours of volunteering for charity are not entitled to overtime pay for the work, a federal District Court in North Carolina has affirmed.  The Court has affirmed a decision by a Magistrate Judge who concluded that the program was not work covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The founder of a nonprofit corporation may not claim losses on his personal tax return from the corporation he sought to classify as an S corporation.  The Tax Court has ruled he is not a stockholder or owner of the nonprofit and is not entitled to a deduction.

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.