The New York County Lawyers’ Association yesterday blasted Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for publicly criticizing Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman’s decision to temporarily block the city from laying off several deputy sheriffs.
“It is one thing for an elected official to disagree with a court ruling, but it is unworthy of the Mayor to demean an individual judge with a personal attack, and equally unworthy of him to mischaracterize what happened in court,” James B. Kobak Jr., president of NYCLA, said in a statement.
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