- Moody’s Revises Local Government GO Methodology: Webinar.
- Issue Price Definition in Proposed Exempt Bond Regs Must Go, Witnesses Say.
- Groups Urge Bank Regulators To Make Munis High Quality Liquidity Assets.
- Moody’s: Enterprise Risk, Contingent Liabilities Remain Major Credit Risk for some Local Governments.
- Financial Illiteracy: One of Government’s Biggest and Least-Discussed Problems.
- MSRB to Propose Best-Execution, MA Rules.
- Superdowngrades: It Could Happen to You.
- Juster Acquisition Co., LLC v. North Hudson Sewerage Authority – District Court upholds enforceability of 18-month exclusivity provision in term sheet entered into between investor and sewer authority for the restructure and refinance of the authority’s leveraged lease debt.
- Hinson v. City of Greensboro – Court of Appeals holds that city did not waive its governmental immunity via its purchase of a $5 million excess liability policy.
- Welch v. Brown – Court of Appeals holds that district court did not abuse its discretion in granting retired municipal workers a preliminary injunction barring city emergency manager from modifying contracts or ordinances governing workers’ health-care benefits.
- And finally, kudos to the Supreme Court of Washington and its staggering grasp of the obvious. We can all breathe a little easier now that one of the great issues of American jurisprudence has been put to rest. Rock crushing and other gravel and cement production-related endeavors are not agricultural activities. Hey, I’m just the messenger. No word yet on whether gravel will petition for cert.
