- The Not-So-Sunny Side of Pension Obligation Bonds.
- Intermediate Bond Math: California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission Webinar.
- S&P: U.S. State And Local Government Credit Conditions Forecast: Ramping Up After A Slower-Than-Expected Start.
- SEC Charges California School District with Misleading Investors.
- GFOA Offers New Guidance on SEC Self-Reporting Program.
- NASACT GASB Review: 2014
- Expedia, Inc. v. City and County of Denver – Court of Appeals holds that City and County Lodger’s Tax ordinance does not require online travel companies to collect and remit municipal taxes that apply to hotel accommodations.
- And finally, Great Moments in Newtonian Jurisprudence is brought to you this week by Avery v. Medina, in which the court helpfully noted that a stone wall was “affixed to the ground by gravity.” Good to know. We also had a curious case in which a police officer was terminated for untruthfulness when he claimed that a chipped windshield resulted from a rock, rather than his attempt to kill a fly with a binder, resulting in one of the better opening paragraphs of an opinion that we’ve seen in quite some time. “This case began innocuously enough when Johnson County Sheriff’s Department Master Deputy Michael Maurer cracked a department vehicle’s windshield with a binder while attempting to shoo a bothersome horsefly. While the horsefly’s life may have ended, the long and tortuous factual and procedural history of this case had just begun.”
