Tax-Exempt Status
California keeps the donor information confidential and only uses it for law enforcement purposes, according to the attorney general’s court filings. Nonprofits are required to submit the unredacted donor information they provide to the Internal Revenue Service to keep their tax-exempt status in California, according to Harris.
U.S. District Judge Manuel Real is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on the foundation’s request for a preliminary injunction.
In a similar challenge to California’s demand brought by the Center for Competitive Politics, a federal judge in Sacramento denied the nonprofit’s request to halt the attorney general’s request for donor data pending the outcome of the lawsuit. That ruling is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which last month said Harris can’t seek the information until a further order from that court.
The case is Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Harris, 14-cv-09448, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Los Angeles).