- New GASB Standard Clarifies Conduit Debt Reporting.
- BDA Comment Letter: MSRB Request for Comment on Rule G-34 Obligation of Municipal Advisors to Apply for CUSIP Numbers When Advising on Competitive
- MSRB Rule G-34 Obligation of Municipal Advisors to Apply for CUSIP Numbers When Advising on Competitive Sales: SIFMA Comment Letter
- Muni Market Torn On Revisiting Municipal Advisor CUSIP Requirements.
- Fitch Ratings Finalizes U.S. Public Power Rating Criteria
- Fitch Ratings: Updated U.S. Public Finance Tender Option Bond Criteria
- IRS Provides Guidance on Refinancings of Tribal Economic Development Bonds – Refinancings of TEDs and Other Targeted Bond Programs Allowed Without Additional Volume Cap Allocation: Holland & Knight
- BLX/Orrick Post-Issuance Compliance Webinar: 2019 Updates from the Front Line
- Opportunity Zones Give Big Law ‘Pop-Up’ Teams Plenty of Work.
- Noteware v. Turner – Court of Appeals holds that the “capable of repetition, yet evading review” exception to the mootness doctrine did not apply to plaintiff’s election contest against city, challenging sufficiency of ballot language setting out a pension obligation bond measure (specifically, whether the city had adequately disclosed that the bond measure authorized the city to levy a tax in excess of the revenue cap in order to pay off the bonds), where plaintiff presented no evidence that a similar discrepancy between language of proposed proposition and the ballot language would occur in the future, or could not be challenged and litigated fully. Worth a read for those of you who might encounter an analogous scenario.
- And finally, Department of Public Works – Office of Mental Health is brought to us this week by De Zapata v. City of New York, in which the court referred to the sidewalk on which pedestrian tripped and fell as, “broken and depressed.” We feel ya’, sidewalk. We feel ya’.