CORPORATIONS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS-EXPULSION OF MEMBER BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Authors

Paul W. Eaton, Jr., University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

The board of directors of defendant, a nonprofit corporation, passed a resolution that persons should not be denied membership on racial, religious or political grounds. Plaintiff, a branch member of defendant, had enacted by-laws denying Negroes admission to its group. Defendant's board declared plaintiff's by-laws were in conflict with the resolution and threatened to expel plaintiff branch if its by-laws were not amended. Plaintiff brought suit to enjoin defendant from carrying out its threat. Held, injunction granted. No national by-law required admission of all races to membership in branches, nor did the national directors have power to expel a branch for failure to observe a policy declared by them. Washington Branch of American Ass'n. of University Women v. American Ass'n. of University Women, (D.C. D.C. 1948) 79 F. Supp. 88.

Recommended Citation

Paul W. Eaton, Jr., CORPORATIONS-NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS-EXPULSION OF MEMBER BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 47 Mich. L. Rev. 839 (1949).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol47/iss6/14