By Michael Francus (Notre Dame Law School) The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted, and strained, finances across the healthcare …
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How Cities Fail: Service Delivery Insolvency and Municipal Bankruptcy
By Clayton Gillette (New York University School of Law) Courts in municipal bankruptcy cases have confronted the inherent …
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Gatekeepers Gone Wrong: Reforming the Chapter 9 Eligibility Rules
By Laura N. Coordes (Arizona State University Law School) In order to gain access to chapter 9 bankruptcy, municipalities must …
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Falling Cities and the Red Queen Phenomenon
By Samir D. Parikh (Lewis and Clark Law School) and Zhaochen He (Lewis and Clark College) Cities and counties are failing. …
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Municipal Borrowing Costs and State Policies for Distressed Municipalities
By Pengjie Gao (University of Notre Dame), Chang Lee (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Dermot Murphy (University of …
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Fair and Unfair Discrimination in Municipal Bankruptcy
By Richard M. Hynes and Steven D. Walt, University of Virginia School of Law Some bankrupt municipalities have proposed plans of …
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