- 36 Underwriters to Pay $9.3M to Settle Under SEC MCDC Program.
- Voluntary Reporting of Bank Loans – Best Practice or Sword of Damocles?
- New Resource Available for Municipal Advisors Developing Supervisory and Compliance Systems.
- GFOA Seeks MA Conduct Rule Changes to Reduce Issuer Costs, Burdens.
- The Dirty Business of Paying for Ratings.
- Behind Chicago’s Rift With Moody’s: Rater’s Tough New Stance.
- New Issue Price Regs Proposed.
- NABL Submits Comments to IRS on TEFRA Regulations.
- Dacus v. Parker – Supreme Court of Texas holds that failure of ballot proposition – for a proposed city charter amendment – to mention drainage charges to be imposed on most real property owners across the city rendered drainage systems and streets funding measure invalid.
- And finally, Don’t Quit Your Day Job is brought to you this week by Justice David E. Nahmias of the Georgia Supreme Court, whose opinion in a sexually oriented business ordinance case begins with this zinger, “The [strip club] asserts that when its employees dance nude and serve alcohol, they are clothed with constitutional free speech protection, which the City of Doraville’s Code of Ordinances attempts to strip away. Ouch. And yes, we are fully aware of the rank hypocrisy inherent in this criticism, which is why this entry could just as well have been entitled, “Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle.”
