ALBANY – An attorney who argued that the state Legislature has not violated the constitutional rights of judges by denying them a pay raise for more than a decade faced sharp questioning yesterday from skeptical members of the Court of Appeals.
Richard H. Dolan contended that the negotiating process that has resulted in a pay raise bill being stalled for years in the Legislature is nothing more than the usual give-and-take that has been employed for generations to decide what bills and appropriations win passage and what measures fail.
