{"id":177109,"date":"2026-04-27T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:51:12","slug":"bankrupt-pennsylvania-city-stymied-by-three-way-legal-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177109\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankrupt Pennsylvania City Stymied by Three-Way Legal Standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Davis, a former Chester, Pa., police captain injured in a shooting that left him with permanent damage to his right arm in 2016, was forced to retire on disability. <\/p>\n<p>A decade later, he\u2019s watching a constitutional fight that could determine whether the city can monetize water assets and exit bankruptcy\u2014and, by extension, when retirees will receive overdue pension payments.<\/p>\n<p>After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court <a data-terminal-id=\"T99RLLKIP3K9\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/bankruptcy-law\/chester-lacks-sole-power-over-water-pennsylvania-justices-rule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled this year<\/a> that Chester couldn\u2019t unilaterally seize and sell its water authority, the city was left without a clear path out of the Chapter 9 case it began <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/bankruptcy-law\/crippled-by-pension-debts-city-near-philadelphia-goes-bankrupt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearly four years ago<\/a>. It\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Davis, a former Chester, Pa., police captain injured in a shooting that left him with permanent damage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79190,60540,46048,79186,79189,5872,79188,28,30,29,79187,46051],"class_list":["post-177109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bankruptcy-legislation","tag-constitutional-law","tag-debtor-asset-sales","tag-emergences","tag-fair-value-accounting","tag-law-enforcement-officers","tag-municipality-debtor","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pension-liability-of-debtor","tag-underfunded-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}