FINRA 529 Plan Share Class Initiative Encourages Firms to Self-Report Violations.
`Question Everything’: Puerto Rico Hits $3.8 Trillion Market
P3 and Your Tax Dollars: Federal Government Makes Next Foray into Public Private Partnerships.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seeks to Establish P3 Pilot Program – Webinar (Tomorrow! 2/13)
P3 Connect: Denver, CO
Snodgrass v. City of Wichita, Kansas – After landowners filed suit against city and law firm, alleging that the proceeds resulting from the refinancing of general and special obligation bonds benefitting their properties should be refunded to them by reassessing the special assessments levied against their property, the District Court granted plaintiff’s motion to remand the matter to state court, holding that the special assessments are taxes under the Tax Injunction Act and that plaintiffs have an adequate remedy in state court.
And finally, Your Editor Sets The Bar Low (And Promptly Trips Over It) is brought to us this week by Ventura v. Town of East Haven and Rand Resources, LLC v. City of Carson, in which Your Editor encountered a couple of ghosts of law school past. We noticed that the opinion in Ventura was written by Justice Palmer of the Connecticut Supreme Court. After I gave the opening argument in a moot court trial presided over by Justice Palmer, he called me over to the bench and announced, “That was the funniest thing I have ever heard from the bench, but of course I would have had to declare a mistrial.” And the opinion in Rand was written by Your Editor’s friend and classmate Justice Cuellar (hey, Tino!) who’s currently occupying a seat on the California Supreme Court. So perhaps we fell a bit short of our potential, but we still have each other, right? Right? Fine, I’m gonna go get a beer with Brett.

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