Editing Jefferson County, Alabama (section)

===2011 bankruptcy filing===
Jefferson County filed for bankruptcy on November 9, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jefferson County, Alabama Chapter 9 Voluntary Petition |url=https://www.pacermonitor.com/view/YJQAF6Y/Jefferson_County__alnbke-11-05736__0001.0.pdf |website=PacerMonitor |access-date=June 22, 2016 |archive-date=August 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810234504/https://www.pacermonitor.com/view/YJQAF6Y/Jefferson_County__alnbke-11-05736__0001.0.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> This action was valued at $4.2 billion, with debts of $3.14 billion relating to sewer work; it was then the most costly municipal bankruptcy ever in the United States. In 2013, it was surpassed by the [[Detroit bankruptcy]] in Michigan.<ref name="BBC Scandal">{{cite web |title=The scandal of the Alabama poor cut off from water |author=Brian Wheeler |work=[[BBC News]] |date=December 14, 2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16037798 |access-date=December 15, 2011 |archive-date=December 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214234830/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16037798 |url-status=live }}</ref> The County requested [[Chapter 9, Title 11, United States Code|Chapter 9]] relief under federal statute 11 U.S.C. §921. The case was filed in the Northern District of Alabama Bankruptcy Court as case number 11-05736.

{{as of|2012|05}}, Jefferson County had slashed expenses and reduced employment of county government workers by more than 700.<ref name=reuters20120512>{{cite news |title=Bankrupt Jefferson County, Alabama Lays Off 75 More Government Workers |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/bankrupt-jefferson-county-alabama-lays-off_n_1472652.html |access-date=May 14, 2012 |newspaper=Reuters |date=May 2, 2012 |archive-date=May 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506000457/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/bankrupt-jefferson-county-alabama-lays-off_n_1472652.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The county emerged from bankruptcy in December 2013, following the approval of a bankruptcy plan by the [[United States bankruptcy court]] for the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama|Northern District of Alabama]], writing off more than $1.4 billion of the debt.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110924060918/http://www.al.com/jeffco/ Jefferson County bankruptcy], articles from the ''Huntsville Times''.</ref><ref>Associated Press, [http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20131204/NEWS/131209934 "Jefferson County emerges from bankruptcy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508152410/http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20131204/NEWS/131209934 |date=May 8, 2016 }}, December 4, 2013.</ref><ref>Shelly Sigo, [http://www.bondbuyer.com/issues/123_1/bankruptcy-over-but-jefferson-county-ala-will-remain-in-the-news-1058616-1.html "Bankruptcy Over, But Jefferson County, Ala., Will Remain in the News"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908232201/http://www.bondbuyer.com/issues/123_1/bankruptcy-over-but-jefferson-county-ala-will-remain-in-the-news-1058616-1.html |date=September 8, 2016 }}, ''Bond Buyer'', December 31, 2013.</ref>