The latest bid to win a retroactive pay raise for the state’s 1,300 judges was assigned yesterday to Justice Richard F. Braun in Manhattan. Thomas E. Bezanson, who represents the four plaintiff judges in Larabee v. Governor, 112301/07, said the judges are owed more than $325 million in back pay to keep them even with inflation since their last raise in 1999.
Last year, the Court of Appeals in Larabee and two other judicial pay raise cases found the Legislature had violated the separation of powers doctrine by linking a judicial raise to unrelated issues and directed lawmakers to address the issue in an “appropriate and expeditious” way. The Legislature then created a commission to set pay levels for judges every four years, beginning April 1, 2012, at the earliest.
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