Executive Summary:
On January 30, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (the “Court”) issued an opinion in In re LTL Management, LLC, No. 22-2003, 2023 WL 1098189, at *1 (3d Cir. Jan. 30, 2023) (“LTL...more
2/10/2023
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Chapter 11 ,
Commercial Bankruptcy ,
Corporate Liability ,
Debt ,
Financial Distress ,
Good Faith ,
Johnson & Johnson ,
Mass Tort Litigation ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
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On March 15, 2022, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico announced that the Plan of Adjustment for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico became effective, more than four years after Puerto Rico commenced...more
On May 20, 2021, the Illinois Supreme Court finally put to rest a long-simmering challenge to the validity of around $14 billion of Illinois general obligation bonds. The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed, albeit on...more
On August 6, 2020, an Illinois appellate court ruled that a petition by political activist John Tillman seeking leave to invalidate approximately $16 billion of Illinois’s general obligation bonds (“GO Bonds”) should be...more
On August 29, 2019, an Illinois court denied a petition by a political activist and a hedge fund seeking leave to file a lawsuit claiming that approximately $16 billion of Illinois’s general obligation bonds (“GO Bonds”) were...more
9/5/2019
/ CDS ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Debt ,
Financial Obligations ,
Fixed Operating Expenses ,
Municipal Bonds ,
Municipal Securities Issuers ,
Municipalities ,
Retroactive Application ,
State and Local Government ,
State Budgets ,
State Constitutions