The Trump Administration has proposed new regulations to prohibit racial considerations in scholarships and other administrative policies in educational institutions and to remove the tax-exempt status for any institution failing to comply.

When Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple of Austin (TX) was incorporated as a nonprofit religious institution in 2007, its certificate of formation vested management of the Temple in its board of directors and provided that it would have no members.  Its bylaws provided that corporate management was vested in its board, which would select new directors by vote of the board.

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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.