- MSRB Reminds Dealers of the January 1, 2015 Effective Date of Amendments to MSRB Rule G-3 on Firm Element Continuing Education.
- A New Prosecutorial Frontier – SEC Seeks Bans on Municipal Officials: Burr & Forman.
- Environmental Risks Becoming Part of Bond Assessments.
- Public Finance Predictions for 2015.
- Expect More Tax Guidance in 2015.
- IRS Chief Counsel: BABs Defeasance Causes Reissuance.
- Congress Extends QZABs, New Markets Tax Credits; Continuing Effect of Sequestration: McGuire Woods
- Pension Time Bomb Ticks as Disclosure Rules Toughen: Muni Credit.
- Municipal Bond Interest Paid By a Bond Insurer After an Issuer’s Bankruptcy Discharge Can Remain Tax-Exempt: Mintz Levin.
- Town of Black Mountain v. Lexon Ins. Co. – Appeals court holds that county was entitled to assign subdivision performance bonds to town in connection with town’s annexation of the land covered by the bonds.
- City of New Orleans v. AMBAC Assurance Corp. – In suit brought by city against bond underwriters in connection with failed interest rate swap that resulted in refinancing of variable rate muni bonds, appeals court holds that city was prohibited from introducing new alleged misrepresentations at trial that should have been pled in the original complaint.
- And finally, after scoring a totally killer deal from a gypsy on some magic beans, Daniel Meints finds some loose change in his ashtray which he uses to purchase an occult totem (aka a No Trespassing sign) that, shockingly, fails to ward off the evil spirits (aka city code enforcement officers) that had been bedeviling his property. Still waiting on the beans. Be sprouting any day now.