A member of the general public has been denied the right to review the corporate records of a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization in Missouri.  A state appellate court has affirmed a trial court decision denying the request.

A new Missouri was incorporated as a nonprofit public benefit corporation to advance social welfare “by promoting ideas, policies and/or legislation to create more jobs, higher pay, safer streets, better schools, and more, for all Missourians.” 

Lilia Orellana worked as an “off the books” housekeeper for Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky and his wife in the home they occupied as head of the Chabad Lubavitch Jewish Center of Monroe, NJ.  When she slipped and fell on the stairs of their home, she was taken to the hospital for treatment.  The emergency room personnel would not treat her because her injuries were “work-related” and her employer had to be notified.  The Center did not maintain workers’ comp insurance.

President Donald J. Trump has been ordered to pay $2 million in damages for improperly using the charitable assets of his private foundation to intervene in the 2016 Presidential election and further his political interests.  A trial court judge has rejected a request by the New York Attorney General that he be ordered to pay double damages because he has stipulated to “a number of proactive conditions so that the conduct which engendered this petition should not occur in the future.”

A magistrate judge in Indiana has refused to recuse himself from hearing a civil suit where the defendant helped a charity and possibly made contributions when the judge had been an ex officio director of the group.

Bennie Kennedy sued Schneider Electric in the Northern District of Indiana.  The case was assigned to Magistrate Judge Joseph Kolar.  Kennedy sought to disqualify Kolar from hearing the case.

A volunteer “community ambassador” for the American Red Cross in New York is not entitled to workers’ compensation payments after being injured while loading materials into her car, the Appellate Division has affirmed.

The claimant said she was hit in the nose by a hand cart while loading the materials.  She sought workers’ compensation benefits but was denied by a workers’ compensation law judge and the Workers’ Compensation Board.  The Court has affirmed on appeal.

The City of Allentown, PA, cannot impose a business privilege tax on revenue received by the parent entity of a healthcare system from providing services to its nonprofit affiliates.  A trial court has held that the activity is not engaged in for profit and is therefore not subject to the tax.

The City of Allentown imposes a business privilege tax on any activity “carried on or exercised for gain or profit in the City, including … the sale of merchandise or other tangible personality or the performance of services.”