An appeals court has put a sewer-system management dispute that arose in the Jefferson County, Ala., bankruptcy case on hold until next year while county leaders pursue a $1.9 billion sewer-debt deal that would settle the matter, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported today. In court papers filed on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit indicated that county leaders won their request to push back a July 24 hearing in the appeals case to early next year, in a key scheduling change that county officials needed as they try to execute the proposed sewer-debt deal.
