The federal District Court in Rhode Island (Melissa R. DuBose) has expanded its preliminary injunction against the government’s inclusion of likely illegal requirements on grants from the Office on Violence Against Women. (See Nonprofit Issues®, Vol. XXXV, No. 6.)
In another trial court decision enjoining the government’s efforts to eliminate funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by government grantees, the federal District Court in Chicago (Matthew F. Kennelly) has issued a preliminary injunction against the inclusion of anti-DEI conditions in Department of Justice grants.
A federal District Court has dismissed most counts of a suit brought by ousted Penn State University Trustee Barry J. Fenchak against the University in their long-running dispute over Fenchak’s rights and duties as a member of the Board of Trustees. The Court has dismissed claims of defamation, breach of fiduciary duty, and violation of the Pennsylvania Constitution. It has refused to dismiss at this point, however, a claim for violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The Pennsylvania Whistleblower Law does not protect a chief financial officer who complained that one of his staff had “plugged” items in financial records to make accounts balance from an adverse summary judgment, but did protect him from complaints about violations of internal ethics policies, a federal District Court in Pennsylvania has ruled.
“A more frivolous counterclaim cannot be imagined. Counsel for [the defendant] are ordered to show cause why they — attorneys licensed to practice in this court — should not be sanctioned for wasting this Court’s time and the [plaintiff’s] resources by asserting such a claim.”
Thus concluded the federal District Court in Manhattan when the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sued its former CFO for breach of fiduciary duty and the CFO counterclaimed for breach of the confidentiality provisions in the parties’ mediation agreements.
The federal District Court in Oregon (Mustafa T. Kasubhai) has enjoined the Department of Health and Human Services from seeking to enforce Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Declaration that the provision of gender-affirming care fails “to meet professional[sic] recognized standards of health care” and that any organization providing such services can be terminated from the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs.
The Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation seeking approval to run a safe injection site for users of illegal drugs in Philadelphia has been denied a request to add its president’s personal claim for religious liberty to the litigation. The District Court called the request a “ploy” that had already been rejected by the Court of Appeals.
