Nonprofits Fight Regulation

CHANCES ARE you haven’t heard of the legal cases that go by the name Pinellas I and Pinellas II. But nonprofit mailers know them, and are worried about the outcome.

At stake is whether nonprofits are regulated only by 50 states, or by thousands of counties and jurisdictions.

Pinellas I ended last November when a court ruled that firms that organize mailings for nonprofits do not have to register with Pinellas County, FL.

But Pinellas II, a case about whether mailers themselves have to register, has yet to be fought.