- MSRB Board Authorizes Further Amendments to Rule G-14, Withdraws Pre-Trade Concept Release.
- BLX/Orrick 2025 Post-Issuance Compliance Workshop (NEW!)
- USPF Credit Outlooks 2025: Fitch On-Demand Webinars
- Fitch: Potential Medicaid Cuts Could Threaten Not-for-Profit Hospital Margins
- Investors Rush to Buy Near-Junk College Bonds Even as Risks Grow.
- Jorolan v. Eads – In citizen challenge to validity of issuance of general obligation bonds approved by county voters, Court of Appeals holds that challengers did not allege a concrete injury, specific and particular to challengers that could be redressed with a favorable decision by the court and that challengers lacked standing because they did not allege some injury distinct from that sustained by the public at large.
- Baylor County Special Utility District v. City of Seymour – Court of Appeals holds that contract between city and special utility district wherein city would issue bonds for construction of water treatment plant and district would purchase all water required for its own use and distribution of treated water to customers was a “requirements contract” for which there was waiver of district’s governmental immunity.
- And Finally, Tragedy Is When I Cut My Finger. Comedy Is When You Fall Into An Open Sewer And Die (Mel Brooks) is brought to us this week by Fuentes v. 158 Management, LLC, in which Mariana Fuentes was “just standing on the sidewalk when it collapsed beneath her.” The entire sidewalk. Collapsed beneath her. We imagine that this came as a bit of a surprise. Ms. Fuentes found herself in a “cellar vault below.” (Would have strange had she fallen into a cellar vault above. Damn you, Newton.). The court was silent as to the contents of the cellar vault, but the only upside we can imagine is wine cellar. She’s gonna need a drink. Or two.