ALBANY – The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the state can legally block its Supreme Court justices from receiving judicial pensions while they remain on the bench as “certificated” justices.
The unsigned per curiam decision found that there were valid public policy reasons behind the 2013 adoption by the Administrative Board of the Courts of a rule prohibiting “double-dipping” by justices who opt to remain on the job after they reach the state’s judicial retirement age of 70.
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