The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court (an intermediate appellate court) has held that a School District’s program of appealing real estate tax assessments only on commercial properties and not on residential properties violates the state constitutional requirement of uniform taxation on property of the same class of subjects.
The federal District Court for the District of Columbia (Paul L. Friedman) has thrown out a Department of Defense policy denying press credentials, access to press conferences and access to the Pentagon building unless reporters agreed to publish only information that was approved for public release by the Department. The Court granted summary judgment for the New York Times and other press organizations and vacated the Department’s policy.
A parcel of farmland in rural Louisiana was worth in 2017 what was paid for it in 2016, $2975 per acre, the Tax Court has held. Its value was not $439,492 per acre as claimed on a taxpayer’s claim for a $115 million charitable contribution deduction for a syndicated conservation easement granted 21 months later.
A trial court has authority to name a specific hospital as the beneficiary of charitable funds even though the trustee holding such funds recommends a hospital foundation and a community organization to benefit when the originally designated hospital went out of existence.
“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell has done it again!!! He is TOO LATE, and actually, TOO ANGRY, TOO STUPID, & TOO POLITICAL, to have the job of Fed Chair. He is costing our Country TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS …. Put another way, ‘Too Late’ is a TOTAL LOSER, and our Country is paying the price!” That post by President Trump is one of “at least 100 statements that the President or his deputies have made attacking the Chair of the Federal Reserve and pressuring him to lower interest rates” that the federal District Court for the District of Columbia (James E.
An association of parents of Little League baseball players lacks standing to sue the local league and national organization for failure to follow league rules concerning the training and compliance with safety precautions, a state trial court in Connecticut has ruled. It has dismissed the claims against the local league, the national and all of the individual directors of the local league.
Newly formed nonprofits intending to operate as 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations will now be required to file their Form 8976 Notice of Intent electronically through Pay.gov. A user fee of $50 must also be paid through Pay.gov directly from a bank account, credit or debit card. The switch occurred on March 9, 2026.
