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Boorish behavior not grounds for court to remove director

Boorish behavior not grounds for court to remove director

Boorish behavior not grounds for court to remove director

“Boorish and insulting behavior” toward other members of the board of directors of a nonprofit corporation does not constitute sufficient grounds for judicial removal of the director under the Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation Law, the state Commonwealth Court has held. While calling the conduct “deplorable,” it said it does not constitute grounds for court intervention in the nonprofit’s governance. Zbigniew “Joe” Kowalski was one of nine directors of A Pocono Country Place Property Owners Association, who had difficult relations with the other directors during 2016. He directed multiple insulting remarks at the other directors, seven of whom were women. He criticized them as “dangerous...

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