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LA County Uses P3 Lease Revenue Bonds for 21-Story, $295 million Office Tower.
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Landmark Towers Association, Inc. by EWG-GV, LLC v. UMB Bank, N.A. – Court of Appeals holds that special district’s levy was a “special assessment,” despite argument that it was imposed on real property according to a uniform mill rate, and thus imposing it on condominium in the district violated the due-process rights of condominium’s homeowners association, where the levy funded purely local improvements directly and specially benefiting only a planned development in the district.
Trafalgar Woods Homeowners Association, Inc. v. City of Cape Coral – District Court of Appeal holds that credits against special assessments for irrigation water pursuant to planned development ordinance extended to homeowners association and property owners of individual lots as successors in interest to project developer, rather than only to developer.
And finally, Is Our Children Learning? is brought to us this week by Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education, in which school board member Andrew Cruz articulated the board’s position on beginning meetings with a prayer thusly, “I think there are very few districts of that powerfulness of having a board such as ourselves having a goal.” Let us all now bow our heads and offer up a prayer for the poor children of the Chino Valley Unified School District. Amen.

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