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“The levy against persons in formal employment to the exclusion of other nonformal income earners without justification is discriminatory, irrational, arbitrary and against the constitution,” according to the 160-page judgment.

That made sense to Crooms, director of the Department of the Environment for Prince George’s County, who was enrolled in the course through the University of Maryland Extension, a statewide, nonformal education system within the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Siv Limstrand, the Lutheran pastor at Svalbard Church, said she had previously considered Gushchin to be “very friendly, easygoing, nonformal, extending communication and cooperation.”

Formally established by an act of Congress in 1914, extension programs are based at land-grant colleges and universities and tasked with providing nonformal, research-based education to agricultural producers, business owners and the general public on a wide variety of topics, from parenting and gardening to cooking and food safety.

A startup that presents chamber music events in nonformal settings, ECM had planned to host the Miró Quartet in a complete cycle of Beethoven’s 16 string quartets.