Given all the negative publicity surrounding pay raises over the past year for public officials, you might think the state Supreme Court would be tired of the issue.
But less than two weeks after the justices heard oral arguments in a trio of cases stemming from the 2005 legislative/judicial pay raise that was later taken away, the high court has agreed to hear the appeal of an Allegheny County judge and former district attorney lost a bid to increase his monthly retirement allowance under state legislation that went into effect nearly two years after he retired as the county’s top prosecutor.
