They alleged that she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of organization funds on personal items, including jewelry and clothing.

McKinzie responded that $45,000 was actually spent on statues of herself and the sorority's first International President, the late Nellie Quander.

The plaintiffs additionally claimed that under McKinzie ΑΚΑ lost large sums in investments.

[5] In October 2009, legal counsel for ΑΚΑ sent a letter to the plaintiffs' attorneys demanding that a web site supporting the lawsuit be removed from the Internet,[6] but the web site, Friends of the Weeping Ivy,[7] remained online.

After the lawsuit initially had been dismissed, [8] a Washington D.C. appeals court found in favor of the plaintiffs and reinstated the suit.