SEC Charges Charter School Operator and its Former President With Fraudulent Municipal Bond Offering.
NABL: The Bond Lawyer – Summer 2020
Fundamentals of Local Government Budgeting: GFOA Webinar
Dechert LLP v. Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development – Commonwealth Court holds, as a matter of first impression, that the movement from an expired zone into an active zone is not grounds for deeming a business unqualified for the tax benefits under the KOZ Act, assuming the business qualifies under the KOZ Act and meets the express relocation requirements.
Board of Education of Richland School District No. 88a v. City of Crest Hill – Appellate Court holds that Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act for redevelopment of blighted property did not allow city to jump a 234.9 foot portion of natural gas right-of-way, located in unincorporated excluded area of approved tax increment financing (TIF) district, to establish required contiguity between two parcels, and, thus, financing district was not contiguous.
And finally, Great Moments In The Mystifying Use (And Abuse) Of “Quotation Marks” is brought to us this week by Baltimore City Police Department v. Esteppe, in which the court informed us that, “In March 2012, Ms. Chelchowski threatened Mr. Esteppe to the effect that she had ‘cop friends’ and that he was ‘going down.’ Mr. Lewellen was one such ‘close’ friend, whom Ms. Chelchowski had known ‘for years.’ Later that day, Mr. Lewellen and several other officers ‘busted in’ through Mr. Esteppe’s front door and executed the search warrant.” Oh, a “close” friend you’ve known “for years?” We suddenly have the urge to take a “fork” and “stab” someone in “the eyeballs.”

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