Law and legal issues

The Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent points out that city officials have failed to bring the COVID-19 infection rate to a safe enough level.

The effects of COVID-19 on Puerto Rico are severe and the island's capacity to repay its debt has changed. The Oversight Board's objectives in the debt-restructuring process, however, have not.

The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Chicago's suburbs reopened over the summer, but isn't drawing enough business to cover a Jan. 1 debt service payment.

New Hampshire wants the Supreme Court to hear its challenge to income taxes its neighbor levies on employees who began working from home during the pandemic.

The agreement to end the lawsuit over the sale of securities for a failed nuclear reactor project still must be approved by the court.

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and two former Flint emergency managers entered not guilty pleas Thursday on criminal charges tied to their alleged roles in the Flint water contamination crisis

Michigan Attorney-General Dana Nessel filed misdemeanor willful neglect of duty charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder in a Genesee County court.

Illinois is asking state justices to resolve efforts to challenge $14 billion of outstanding general obligation bonds.

Park Place at Elmhurst would restructure and redeem $141 million of bonds issued to exit its 2016 Chapter 11 under a plan pending before a bankruptcy court.

The lawsuits concern bond disclosure in South Carolina, a Florida toll bridge default, and the federal water rights fight between Florida and Georgia.

The refusal to hear the bond trustee's appeal appears to end the litigation over whether Platte County bears legal responsibility to repay the debt.

Tuesday's decision keeps the trial process rolling along, progress the accused banks were hoping to halt with their appeal.

City officials say the continuation of enhanced taxing authority from Pennsylvania will help it refinance debt and avoid another fiscal cliff.

The state Supreme Court declined to hear the case, ending a fiscal and legal dispute with the basketball team that left for San Francisco last year.

The legal wrangling over whether the state can control expressways in Miami-Dade County is expected to rage on well into 2021.

The second bankruptcy of the Las Vegas Monorail was much smaller than the first, and bondholder Preston Hollow LLC is getting paid a full $22 million.

Moody's dropped the Chicago Archdiocese' rated debt by three notches to Ba1.

The Department of Justice filed a federal complaint alleging conditions at Alabama prisons violate the constitution, as the state continues to negotiate public-private partnerships to build three lockups.

The state attorney general is asking the court to clarify the legal standard for denying taxpayer actions and decide if the state constitution limits GO borrowing to capital purposes.

Deep bondholder losses are expected when the bonds issued for five Better Housing Foundation portfolios in and around Chicago emerge from Chapter 11.