On March 21, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California affirmed a bankruptcy court’s dismissal of the San Benito Healthcare District’s chapter 9 bankruptcy petition on the grounds that the...more
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 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