A group of older midlevel appellate judges last year publicly challenged New York’s top judge by filing a lawsuit in a last-resort bid to keep their jobs.

What followed was a bitter months-long controversy over whether Chief Judge Janet DiFiore and other high-level judicial officials should have forced out the appellate judges, and a slate of other jurists, while facing a budget cut from the state.

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