christy mcdonald of detroit public television joins us again. >> christy, welcome back to the programmind us why this judge's ruling was necessary. the city was pretty much already clearly going into bankruptcy, wasn't it? >> it was. but, judy, he had to answer several legal questions before he could clear the way for detroit's eligibility for chapter 9, 1 of those is the city insolvent and the judge found yes, the city is insolvent and can't pay its debts and no one really arranged that point there, there is an $18 billion debt, the other question he had to answer was, did the city negotiate in good faith with its creditors before they even filed for bankruptcy? and while he chastised the city and said you know what? the city really did not negotiate in good faith he moved to the next legal question was, did the city, was it even possible for them to negotiate and he said it really wasn't given the fact they had 100,000 creditors in an $18 billion debt, and then the other question he had to answer was, was it constitutional to file for bankruptcy and indeed he said yes, it was. an in