Oates v. City of Lincoln

Opinion

RAYE, J.

Assessment bonds provide a means for private property owners to borrow, and to pay over time for, the costs of public infrastructure benefiting their property. In tandem with assessment bonds, reserve bonds are issued as a means of providing bondholders with a degree of assurance that debt service due on the assessment bonds will be paid in the event of credit difficulties.

Plaintiff Marvin L. Oates, a property owner (but not a bondholder), filed suit against defendants City of Lincoln (City) and the Lincoln Public Financing Authority (Authority), alleging the City and the…