- SIFMA Releases Model MA Documents.
- Citi Analyst: Two Options to Save Tender Option Bonds.
- Citi Analysis Shows Bank Regulators That Most Munis Are Liquid.
- WSJ: Finra Scrutinizes Banks’ Role in Bond Market.
- City Should Have Turned to TIFs Instead of Property Tax Hikes: Study.
- Pension Obligation Bonds – Beware of Quick Fixes.
- Local Governments’ Role in Energy Project Financing.
- Municipal Market Seminar on Regulation, Compliance and Enforcement – Featuring FINRA and MSRB.
- Alejos v. State – Court of Appeals holds that taxpayer was a “party” entitled to appeal final judgment validating the issuance of $33 million in sales tax revenue-backed bonds issued by transportation district and, citing procedural errors, reverses/remands prior decision requiring taxpayer to post a $3.6 million bond.
- Cromeans v. Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. – District Court holds that law firm that served as IP counsel for manufacturing facility was not subject to general or personal jurisdiction in Missouri after underwriter of bonds issued for construction of the facility filed a third–party complaint for contribution and indemnity against law firm after bondholders sued underwriter following the failure of the facility.
- And finally, a lawyer gives the public yet another reason to hate us when he appeals his $25 parking ticket all the way up to the Supreme Court of West Virginia and prison guards in Kentucky catch a little flak for threatening an inmate with mace and taser guns if he didn’t stop asking for permission to go to church. Ironically, it was precisely those instruments which were required to compel your editor to attend church as a young lad.