- BDA Submits Comment Letter on Proposed Rule G-42 to Establish Core Standards of Conduct for MAs.
- MSRB Makes Moody’s Public Finance Ratings Available on EMMA Today.
- SEC Approves Additional Post-Trade Data Collection.
- GASB: What You Need to Know about Local Government Investment Pools.
- GASB On the Horizon: Business-Type Activity Governments.
- Move America Bonds – Close Enough for Government Work.
- Bond Attorneys’ Workshop – Registration Now Open.
- Louisiana Local Government Facilities and Community Development Authority v. All Taxpayers – Supreme Court of Louisiana reverses court of appeal’s ruling that Community Development Authority’s bond validation motion was defective due to CDA’s failure to introduce into the record the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds; Bond Validation Act silent with regard to what evidence a governmental entity must introduce to meet its burden of proof in connection with a motion for judgment to validate bonds and Court declined to insert provisions into statute where the legislature had chosen not to do so.
- J.P. Morgan Securities LLC v. Quinnipiac University – District Court enjoins university from initiating FINRA arbitration on its claims against J.P. Morgan arising out of ARS-related losses, holding that FINRA arbitration rules were superseded by the forum selection clause in the parties’ Broker Dealer Agreement.
- And finally, woman’s after-the-fact argument that she was in dentist office basement by permission undercut just slightly by the fact that she: a) broke basement window; b) entered the basement via said window; c) informed a passerby, while halfway through the window, that she was just looking for her keys; d) refused to reply to police officers who showed up to help her find her keys; and e) blew a 0.27 (3x the legal limit!). No word yet on the keys, but police dog goes on the record in support of city’s “bite and hold” (as opposed to “bark and hold”) policy.