- Ed. Note: We’ll be covering the newly-issued bankruptcy court opinion in Chester v. Preston Hollow next week.
- Budget Document Basics: GFOA eLearning Course
- SEC Attempts to Calm Muni Market Over FDTA Implementation.
- Sewer Rates Soar as Private Companies Buy Up Local Water Systems.
- Nevada Judge Tosses Teachers Union-Backed Petition to Put A’s Stadium Funding on 2024 Ballot.
- Interesting Illinois eminent domain/tax case here.
- City of Memphis v. Horn Lake Creek Basin Interceptor Sewer District – After city provided utility district with a six-month notice terminating its provision of water treatment services, U.S. District Court issues a lengthy, detailed roadmap for a 10-year transition process.
- And Finally, Great Moments In Judicial Literary Whiplash: Sewage Edition is brought to us this week by the above-referenced City of Memphis v. Horn Lake Creek Basin Interceptor Sewer District, in which the court literally began its opinion with, “At issue is sewage.” Seriously. That’s it. Terse. Succinct. Pleasantly abrupt. And will this Hemingwayesque sentence unfold into a Carveresque tale? It will not. Literally the next sentence: “In the balance hangs the quality of life in two adjacent communities, across state lines, and the ability of local governments to provide an essential service while maintaining the infrastructure to do so.” Well that took a turn for the florid. Apparently Judge Norris is playing Musical Clerks again.