A state appellate panel has said court officers for New York City’s lower courts are not due retroactive or prospective salary adjustments—which may have amounted to thousands of dollars for each officer and would have been linked to a 2004 reclassification of their employment titles.

A unanimous Appellate Division, First Department, panel on Thursday threw out claims for retroactive relief and prospective salary-adjustment relief lodged by the New York State Court Officers Association. The panel ruled that the union, which represents some 1,500 court officers serving not state courts but rather New York City’s lower courts, filed its action far too long after the applicable four-month statute of limitations had run.

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