The federal District Court in the District of Columbia (James E. Boasberg) has issued preliminary injunctions to prevent the Federal Trade Commission from enforcing Civil Investigation Demands against advocates and providers of transgender care to individuals.  In two separate companion opinions, the Court has found that demands for voluminous records from the Endocrine Society and the World Health Association for Transgender Health have a likelihood of success on their claim of First Amendment retaliation.

The federal District Court in Manhattan (Colleen McMahon) has enjoined the largest mass termination of previously awarded grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  More than 1,400 grants representing over $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds awarded to scholars, writers, research institutions and other humanities organizations were terminated in April 2025 because, according to the government defendants, they were intended to implement President Trump’s directives to eliminate grants associated with diversity, equity and inclusion.

More than half of the private foundations filing a Form 990-PF during 2022 have total net assets of less than $1 million, the IRS has reported recently.

Two cousins who each claimed half of the appraised value of a 13-acre parcel of property given to their local community have been denied charitable contribution deductions for lack of a contemporaneous written acknowledgment stating that they received no goods or services in return for the gift.

An appellate court in New York has affirmed the penalties imposed upon former National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.  A jury had found LaPierre liable for breach of fiduciary duty in 2024 and ordered him to pay $4.3 million in damages to the organization.  The trial court judge also banned LaPierre from serving in any fiduciary position with the NRA or any of its affiliates for a period of 10 years. (See Nonprofit Issues^®, Vol.

The federal District Court in Washington, D.C. (Christopher R. Cooper) has granted summary judgment on Congresswoman Joyce Beatty’s suit to prohibit the Board of Directors of the “John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” from changing the name of the Center without the approval of Congress.

The 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a per curiam opinion, has affirmed a trial court decision issuing a preliminary injunction against the government for terminating federal grants to programs involving diversity, equity, and inclusion principles. The Court held that the plaintiffs had a substantial likelihood of winning on their claims of violation of the First Amendment.

New bylaw provisions restricting Penn State University Trustees’ right to speak freely about issues facing the Board of the University have been challenged from a new perspective.