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Judicial Pay Impasse
Free: Governor, Legislature Ordered To Raise Pay of State's Judges
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward H. Lehner yesterday gave the Legislature and Governor David A. Paterson 90 days to adjust the pay of the state's 1,300 judges to reflect the rise in the cost of living since their last raise nearly 10 years ago. Justice Lehner found that the Legislature and the governor had "unconstitutionally abused their power" by neglecting to raise judicial pay.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Free: Impact on Judges of No Raise Is 'Key' to Case
Friday, May 30, 2008
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Free: Early Trial Bid Denied In Kaye's Pay Action
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
A Manhattan Supreme Court justice on Friday upended a litigation strategy designed by lawyers for the court system to push state lawmakers into passing legislation to raise judicial salaries. Justice Edward H. Lehner rejected a request for an expedited trial, starting June 2, at which Bernard W. Nussbaum, the lead counsel in Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye's lawsuit to force a pay raise, had insisted he would call the leaders of the executive and legislative branches to testify about how they had linked judicial raises to other issues, principally a pay raise for the legislators themselves.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Free: In Their Own Words: Bench and Bar Respond to Judicial Pay Deadlock
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Free: Recusals Could Lead to Discipline, Conduct Commission Forewarns
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The Commission on Judicial Conduct yesterday warned the state's 1,300 judges that using recusals to protest legislative inaction on a pay raise could result in disciplinary action. The commission's statement cited 10 different sections of the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct that could be implicated when judges refuse to handle cases where parties are represented by lawmakers or their law firms.
Free: OCA Contracts Put Three-Year Limit on Wage Hike Deferrals
Friday, May 9, 2008
Free: Judges Warned Against Tactics That Hurt 'Cause' for Pay Hike
Friday, May 2, 2008
Free: Kaye Writes Governor To Deny Work 'Slowdown'
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Free: Court Contracts Defer Raises For Salaries Above $115,000
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Non-judicial employees of the Office of Court Administration making $115,000 or more a year would have raises deferred until state judges get their long-sought pay hikes, under tentative contract agreements reached between OCA and 10 bargaining units. The four-year contracts provide for raises of 3 percent in each of the first three years and 4 percent in the fourth year.
Free: Kaye Sues State Over Judicial Salaries
Friday, April 11, 2008
Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye today filed a lawsuit to force the state Legislature and the governor into granting state judges their first pay raise since 1999. Former White House counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum filed the suit, Kaye v. Silver, in Manhattan Supreme Court on the chief judge's behalf. Mr. Nussbaum, a litigation partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, is representing Chief Judge Kaye pro bono.
Free: Lawmakers Pass State Budget Without Pay Raise for Judges
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Free: Raise Again Out of Budget; Kaye Talks of April Lawsuit
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
As the state Legislature prepared to begin passing the 10th consecutive budget that does not contain a pay raise for judges, Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye's attorney yesterday outlined her possible suit to force lawmakers and the governor to break the salary impasse. "This is a legitimate case, a legitimate legal case," attorney Bernard W. Nussbaum told more than 100 judges and other supporters of a judicial pay raise who gathered yesterday at New York State Bar Association headquarters in Albany.
Free: Perspective: Judicial Salaries
Monday, March 31, 2008
Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman writes: One year ago, I wrote on this page about the urgency, the imperative of granting New York State's judges fair compensation, and of the desperately needed relief from the rapidly rising cost of living. Judges are now in the 10th year of working without a raise, seeing that justice is done for everyone but the judges.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
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Friday, March 28, 2008
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Free: Citing Economy, Paterson Says Chances for Raise 'Very Difficult'
Friday, March 14, 2008
Free: Spitzer Announces Resignation
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Faced with the necessity of negotiating a new budget in a failing economy, Lieutenant Governor David A. Paterson will have only a limited ability, at least in the near term, to set a public policy course different than that of Governor Eliot Spitzer, whom he will replace on Monday. Mr. Paterson yesterday began to restructure a governor's office that has all but ceased functioning in the tumultuous last three days.
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
Free: Judge's Groups Balk at Proposed Pay Resolution
Monday, February 11, 2008
Free: Second Suit Proceeds Seeking Judges' Raises
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
A state judge in Manhattan ruled yesterday that a lawsuit brought by four judges suing for a pay raise may proceed on a separation of powers claim. A similar ruling by an acting justice in Albany allowed a suit by three other judges to proceed on the same theory, but Supreme Court Justice Edward Lehner's reasoning and language suggested a significantly lower level of proof will be needed for the judges to prevail.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Free: Judges, Children, Globalization on State Bar Agenda
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Free: Nussbaum Tapped by Kaye To Prepare Judicial Pay Suit
Monday, January 28, 2008
Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye has retained former White House counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum to prepare a suit on behalf of the court system to compel the Legislature and Governor Eliot Spitzer to give state judges a raise. Mr. Nussbaum, a litigation partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, said in an interview Friday that he will work pro bono and that, although prepared to litigate, he hopes it will not be necessary.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Free: Resolution Seeks Unity Among Judges
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Spitzer's Budget Again Addresses Judicial Raises
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Lawmakers Predict More Gridlock in '08
Monday, January 14, 2008
As state legislators begin their regular 2008 session today against a backdrop of last year's frustrations and failures, advocates for the consolidation of courts, establishment of a statewide office for indigent defense services, drug law reforms and other major initiatives involving crime and the courts could face another fallow legislative year.
