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An unincorporated association can be considered a “person” under federal civil rights acts and the Voting Rights Act and sanctioned for intimidation, the 10^th Circuit Court of Appeals has held.  It has reversed a District Court holding that the association could not be sued.

The failure of an event management company to do discovery to support its claim for additional compensation for work at a client’s convention has given a federal District Court judge in Pennsylvania the reason to grant a summary judgment for the defendant.

The federal District Court in Massachusetts (Richard G. Stearns) has dismissed the Department of Justice claims against Harvard University in a terse opinion of only a few paragraphs.  The DOJ had claimed that the University had violated the Title VI prohibition against civil rights of Jewish students and should be forced to reform its academic program.  The University had moved to dismiss the case on several grounds.

A donor who claims to have given more than $23,000 to the Open Door Community Church in Oregon has been denied a state tax charitable contribution deduction because he failed to provide a “contemporaneous written acknowledgement from the receiving organization stating that no goods or services were received in exchange for the contribution.”

A volunteer who had frequent disputes with the director of a community center in Quilcene, WA about her authority and role in the center’s activities has seen her multi-count suit against the Center and several other defendants completely thrown out by a federal District Court.

A former director of a nonprofit organization lacks standing to sue to dissolve the corporation, an appellate court in Washington has ruled.