CONSIDER the following hypothetical. An entrepreneur wants to establish a charity to
improve the health of children in de veloping countries. Specifically, the business plan …

Recent and very public problems in the nonprofit world point to the need for greater scrutiny
and some means to protect charities1 from overreaching by directors, trustees, and …

Lost in the recent flurry of legal activity occasioned by corporate integration, disintegration,
and scandalous episodes of managerial abuse, the law governing charitable corporations …

Notwithstanding passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the debate over the
deontological nature of health care in the United States continues. Reflecting opposing …

* Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law; AB Washington University (1972);
JD and MBA, Tulane University (1979); LL. M. in Taxation, Georgetown University Law …

A corporation that has long pursued a particular set of policies and programs is undergoing
a struggle for control of its activities and, ultimately, its funds. Although in the past, incumbent …

People with serious mental disabilities caught a tantalizing glimpse in 1999 of a path to
integration. In Olmstead v. LC ex rel. Zimring,'a case the US Supreme Court decided that …

HL Mencken once wrote," Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be
looking."'In dealing with the nonprofit sector, and public charities in particular, the law has …

Nonprofit firms may not distribute profits to owners but instead must retain them or reinvest
them. Nonprofits that are" charitable organizations" under Section 501 (c)(3) of the tax code …

National surveys have estimated that nearly 200 of the 5,000 not-forprofit hospitals' in the
United States converted to for-profit status between 1990 and 1996.2 These conversions …