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Judicial Pay Impasse
Free: Citing Lack of Raise, Lippman Boosts Judge Allowance to $10,000
Thursday, October 15, 2009
While New York's 1,300 state judges wait for their first raise in more than 10 years, Chief Judge Lippman yesterday said he would double payments they receive to cover a wide range of expenses, from uncovered medical care to judicial license plates. "We are not giving judges [added] salary," Judge Lippman said in an interview. "We have finite resources. I think it's an appropriate reimbursement of judges for expenses of all different kinds."
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Free: First Department Set to Hear Appeal in Judges' Pay Case
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Free: Chief Judge Steps Up Lobbying to Obtain Pay Raises for Judges
Monday, August 3, 2009
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman says he is intensifying his efforts to convince state lawmakers and the governor to grant a pay raise to judges despite a projected budget gap in the current fiscal year that has climbed past $2 billion. "I have within the last days continued to talk to both houses and the leadership and to the governor's office about this issue," the chief judge said in an interview last week. "This is the highest priority. We are absolutely committed in the coming weeks to ratchet this issue up at the highest levels of state government to get this done."
Free: 'Rule of Necessity' Could Be Invoked in Judicial Pay Suits
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Free: First Department Backs Pay Raise for Judges
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The legislature's decade-long failure to give the state's 1,300 judges a raise violated the separation of powers doctrine by subordinating the judges to the "whims and caprices" of politicians who continually linked their pay to unrelated issues, a Manhattan-based appeals court ruled unanimously yesterday. The panel gave the Legislature 90 days to adjust judicial compensation to reflect an approximately 30 percent increase in the cost of living since 1998, when the last judicial raise was enacted. However, with Albany officials unwilling to grant raises in the midst of a recession, the question apparently is headed for a final showdown at the Court of Appeals.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Free: Budget Glitch Does Not Mean Raise, Judges Told
Friday, April 3, 2009
Free: Schack Cites Judicial Pay Stall as Reason for Recusal
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
In a scathing 10-page decision, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Arthur M. Schack has recused himself from a receivership case where the plaintiff is represented by a law firm that employs two state lawmakers, one of whom voted against a judicial pay raise.
Free: Paterson Praises Courts' Budget, Passes on Judges' Raise
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Free: Courts Offer Flat Spending Plan As State Faces 'Grave' Economy
Monday, November 24, 2008
Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye has sent the state Legislature and Governor David A. Paterson a budget request that court administrators say both takes into account New York's financial straits and the courts' attempts to meet the added burdens the economic crisis will place on dockets. Taxpayer support for the courts would remain flat at $2.27 billion under the proposal for the 2009-10 fiscal year. Overall, when federal aid is included, the judiciary expects to spend approximately $2.5 billion, an increase of $2.3 million, or 0.1 percent.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Free: Panel Weighs 'Actual' Versus 'Threatened' Harm on Pay
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Members of a state appeals panel reacted skeptically yesterday afternoon to claims that judges protesting the lack of a pay raise must demonstrate actual harm to the operations and independence of the judiciary. Although "no one disputes" that New York state judges deserve a pay raise, "[n]o one can credibly say that the functioning of the judiciary has been impaired. The judges are doing their job," said Richard H. Dolan of Schlam Stone & Dolan.
Free: Albany Panel Dismisses Judicial Pay Suit
Friday, November 14, 2008
An upstate appeals panel yesterday dismissed a suit filed by judges seeking to force the state to grant them their first pay raise since 1999. While its decision in Maron v. Silver, 504084, was peppered with words such as "deplorable" to describe the raise drought, the Appellate Division, Third Department, nevertheless decided 4-1 that the judges lacked grounds to bring their claims for higher compensation.
