Law and legal issues

UMB's appeal of a lower court decision siding with Platte County over its legal obligation to honor an appropriation pledge is being heard Wednesday

Florida and Georgia have spent tens of millions of dollars in litigation over water rights in the case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The California Supreme Court upheld the state's 2013 pension reform, but said its ruling is not a reexamination of the "California Rule" on public pensions.

Jacksonville-owned JEA and Georgia-based MEAG agreed to settle litigation over JEA's agreement to buy power from reactors under construction in Georgia.

Federal authorities arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder on charges he took bribes to support legislation that benefited bankrupt FirstEnergy.

South Carolina-owned Santee Cooper must pay $200 million to ratepayers and impose a four-year rate freeze to end a suit over a failed nuclear reactor project.

“I absolutely do intend on refilling my complaint,” Andrew Hennigan told The Bond Buyer.

The legal tussle between the Dallas-based private lender and the Chicago-based investment powerhouse continues with defamation and antitrust claims pending in separate courts.

Te legislation, headed for Gov. Tom Wolf's desk, is a response to a court ruling that Scranton exceeded limits under state law from 2015 to 2017.

Tribal leaders, after a landmark win at the Supreme Court, decided not to rush into a deal with the state to seek jurisdictional clarity from Congress.

VRDO reset rates in California consistently were too high to be justified, a new filing contends.

The bond-financed Chicago-area hotel and conference center remains shuttered as a result of the coronavirus health crisis.

The Supreme Court ruled that Native American tribes had never given up or lost their jurisdiction over eastern Oklahoma.

UMB claims the bonds for the Kansas hotel project are in default because the developer failed to secure a $52 million loan required by the bond indenture.

Preston Hollow says another court ruling proves some of its defamation claims. Nuveen counters that accusations fail to rise to defamation because many are opinion or true.

A state appeals court rejected the one of the state government’s attempts to eliminate the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority, but the legal battle continues.

An appellate court will weigh whether a financing agreement on the Platte County IDB bonds attached more than just a moral obligation pledge.

A bankruptcy judge will be asked to sign off on the sale of BHF's Shoreline portfolio in Chicago and will hold an initial Chapter 11 hearing on another portfolio.

Federal judge rules in favor of Georgia's MEAG and JEA will need to continue to pay debt service on bonds used for nuclear reactor construction.

The suit contends Aaron Zahn defrauded the Jacksonville municipal utility while trying to privatize it; eight high-ranking employees were suspended this week.