ALBANY – State judges have yet to be properly compensated for enduring 13 years without pay raises, especially since the state Court of Appeals found that lawmakers acted unconstitutionally in rejecting salary increases, a lawyer told the court Wednesday.
Attorney Thomas Bezanson, counsel at Cohen & Gresser, argued that it was long past the time when the court should make good on its 2010 finding in Matter of Maron v. Silver, 14 NY3d 230, and order that judges receive what they lost in salaries and retirement benefits.
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