{"id":10283,"date":"2024-01-21T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10283"},"modified":"2024-01-21T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T01:41:25","slug":"error-to-apply-cy-pres-to-dissolving-fire-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10283","title":{"rendered":"Error to Apply Cy Pres to Dissolving Fire Company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Orphans&#8217; Court properly refused to approve the distribution of the assets of a dissolving nonprofit corporation to organizations that did not provide firefighting services, but it was error to apply the\u00a0<em>cy pres<\/em>\u00a0doctrine to order distributions to two other firefighting organizations chosen by the court when the by-laws of the dissolving corporation allowed its members to choose the recipients.  <em>In re: Lincoln Fire Company<\/em>, ___ A.4th ___, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Commonwealth\/out\/479CD22_1-16-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">479 C.D. 2022<\/a> (Pa. Cmwlth. 1\/16\/2024), <em>aff&#8217;g in part and rev&#8217;g in part<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=9319\">12 Fid.Rep.3d 312<\/a> (Montgomery O.C. 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orphans&#8217; Court properly refused to approve the distribution of the assets of a dissolving nonprofit corporation to organizations that did not provide firefighting services, but it was error to apply the\u00a0cy pres\u00a0doctrine to order distributions to two other firefighting &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-10283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-cy-pres","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10284,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283\/revisions\/10284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}