Defamation plaintiff lacks standing to contest charity’s exemption

A plaintiff seeking damages for defamation from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, has no standing to seek a declaratory judgment that the SPLC misused its charitable exempt status, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed in an unpublished opinion.  The Court denied both the claim for standing and the claim that he was defamed by being called a “Neo-Nazi Lawyer.”