Law and legal issues

Plans to sell a bankrupt municipal bond-financed care facility to a private equity firm threaten to upend care for its frail senior residents.

The high court agreed to review a June Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that found state funding for a Catholic virtual charter school violates the constitution.

The county would hold a special election for a sales tax to provide more funds to build and operate a bond-financed jail project that faces rising costs.

The Goldwater Institute took aim at another Arizona municipality, filing a lawsuit against tax rate hikes approved by the Gilbert Town Council in October.

Lawsuits surrounding everything from unethical sponsorships to the sale of refunding bonds swept across markets last year, creating a municipal battleground.

California and federal officials  reached a $10 million settlement with the owners of a chain of non-profit health clinics and a laboratory in a case involving Medi-Cal and Medicare fraud.

It's the latest mark of distress for proton treatment centers financed with speculative-grade municipal bonds.

Six Texas cities sued the state comptroller over a rule that altered where sales taxes would be collected on certain online purchases.

Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association has until the end of January to file briefs in its case challenging San Jose's pension obligation bond validation.

The challenge to the 2022 approval of bonds for a PACE program could "catastrophically undermine" the finality of all Florida bond validations, the agency said.