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.

A local municipal ordinance requiring a charitable organization to pay for public support of a substantial fundraising event has been ruled unconstitutional on its face and as applied by a federal District Court in Pennsylvania.  The Court, which had previously ruled on a motion for summary judgment that the ordinance was unconstitutional on its face, has now ruled that it is also unconstitutional as applied to the situation under review.

The Constitution of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People includes a provision providing that a member who sues the Association with respect to internal matters of the Association shall indemnify the Association and its officers and directors against all costs in defending the Association, without regard to the outcome of such litigation.  It provides that the group’s claim shall be brought in Baltimore, MD.