- Bond Issuers Encouraged to Request Refunding Guidance.
- Bond Provisions in Camp Draft Warrant Attention.
- Gross Joins Bond Investors in North Las Vegas Crosshairs.
- US CFTC Pledges Swaps Relief for Public Utilities.
- SIFMA Compliance and Legal Society Annual Seminar.
- Goldman, Sachs & Co. v. City of Reno – Court enjoins FINRA arbitration initiated by city against Goldman arising from collapse of the ARS market, finding that the forum selection clauses in underwriting and broker-dealer agreements superseded default obligation to arbitrate pursuant to FINRA Rule 12200.
- Commerce Park Associates 1, LLC v. Houle – Supreme Court of Rhode Island holds that sewer assessments and charges did not constitute “taxes” for appeal purposes, and thus, the appeals process set forth in statute governing petitions for relief from any assessment of taxes did not apply to any sewer assessments or charges levied by the town pursuant to its authority under town’s enabling act.
- And finally, we come to the case of Mr. Robert J. Boyden, Sr., whom police officers tased after he was spotted “staggering about the street” and who then “climbed the wall of the Arlington Cemetery and walked over to a tree and laid down underneath it.” The officers found his “speech to be slurred and an odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his person” and he responded to their inquiries by explaining that he was simply, “sun tanning in the cemetery.” Also known as your editor’s typical Tuesday afternoon.
