Cyber Insurance Price Hike Hits Local Governments Hard.
Galloway Education, LLC v. Township of Galloway – After taxpayer – the named landlord of property leased to charter school – sought an exemption from property taxes as a not-for-profit entity, the Tax Court denied the exemption due to the fact that the Bondholder Representative was the de facto landlord of the property purchased via the bond issuance and exercised significant control over the property and the operations of the school.
In re Financial Oversight and Management Board – Court of Appeals holds, as a matter of first impression, that Fifth Amendment precluded impairment or discharge of prepetition claims for just compensation in bankruptcy under Title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA)
Substantive land use case from the Michigan Supreme Court here.
Summary of Texas Government Code Chapter 809: Baker McKenzie
West Virginia Penalizes Banks Including JPMorgan, Goldman for Coal ‘Boycotts’
And finally, Oh, The Irony – Midwest Hellhole Edition is brought to us this week by City of Gary v. Nicholson, in which the standard-issue xenophobes crawled out of their holes to object to a symbolic city ordinance welcoming immigrants. We were about to launch into our standard-issue outrage at this (very, very unisolated) incidence of intolerance until we took a closer look. Gary? Gary, Indiana? The Most Miserable City in America Gary? We’re gonna go ahead and second the motion that absolutely no one – immigrant or otherwise – should be welcomed to Gary. And finally, finally, we’ll be leaving you – purposefully shorn of context – with this glorious quote from this week’s Vess v. City of Dallas, “resident was seized when employee kicked him in the head.” Cheers.

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