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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Free: Court Contracts Defer Raises For Salaries Above $115,000

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Non-judicial employees of the Office of Court Administration making $115,000 or more a year would have raises deferred until state judges get their long-sought pay hikes, under tentative contract agreements reached between OCA and 10 bargaining units. The four-year contracts provide for raises of 3 percent in each of the first three years and 4 percent in the fourth year.


Free: Kaye Sues State Over Judicial Salaries

Friday, April 11, 2008

Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye today filed a lawsuit to force the state Legislature and the governor into granting state judges their first pay raise since 1999. Former White House counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum filed the suit, Kaye v. Silver, in Manhattan Supreme Court on the chief judge's behalf. Mr. Nussbaum, a litigation partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, is representing Chief Judge Kaye pro bono.


Free: Lawmakers Pass State Budget Without Pay Raise for Judges

Thursday, April 10, 2008


Free: Raise Again Out of Budget; Kaye Talks of April Lawsuit

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

As the state Legislature prepared to begin passing the 10th consecutive budget that does not contain a pay raise for judges, Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye's attorney yesterday outlined her possible suit to force lawmakers and the governor to break the salary impasse. "This is a legitimate case, a legitimate legal case," attorney Bernard W. Nussbaum told more than 100 judges and other supporters of a judicial pay raise who gathered yesterday at New York State Bar Association headquarters in Albany.

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Monday, March 31, 2008



Free: Perspective: Judicial Salaries

Monday, March 31, 2008

Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman writes: One year ago, I wrote on this page about the urgency, the imperative of granting New York State's judges fair compensation, and of the desperately needed relief from the rapidly rising cost of living. Judges are now in the 10th year of working without a raise, seeing that justice is done for everyone but the judges.

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Friday, March 28, 2008

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Monday, March 24, 2008


Free: Spitzer Announces Resignation

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Faced with the necessity of negotiating a new budget in a failing economy, Lieutenant Governor David A. Paterson will have only a limited ability, at least in the near term, to set a public policy course different than that of Governor Eliot Spitzer, whom he will replace on Monday. Mr. Paterson yesterday began to restructure a governor's office that has all but ceased functioning in the tumultuous last three days.

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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Free: Judge's Groups Balk at Proposed Pay Resolution

Monday, February 11, 2008

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Wednesday, February 6, 2008


Free: Second Suit Proceeds Seeking Judges' Raises

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

A state judge in Manhattan ruled yesterday that a lawsuit brought by four judges suing for a pay raise may proceed on a separation of powers claim. A similar ruling by an acting justice in Albany allowed a suit by three other judges to proceed on the same theory, but Supreme Court Justice Edward Lehner's reasoning and language suggested a significantly lower level of proof will be needed for the judges to prevail.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Free: Nussbaum Tapped by Kaye To Prepare Judicial Pay Suit

Monday, January 28, 2008

Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye has retained former White House counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum to prepare a suit on behalf of the court system to compel the Legislature and Governor Eliot Spitzer to give state judges a raise. Mr. Nussbaum, a litigation partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, said in an interview Friday that he will work pro bono and that, although prepared to litigate, he hopes it will not be necessary.

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Free: Resolution Seeks Unity Among Judges

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Spitzer's Budget Again Addresses Judicial Raises

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Lawmakers Predict More Gridlock in '08

Monday, January 14, 2008

As state legislators begin their regular 2008 session today against a backdrop of last year's frustrations and failures, advocates for the consolidation of courts, establishment of a statewide office for indigent defense services, drug law reforms and other major initiatives involving crime and the courts could face another fallow legislative year.

Free: Second Ruling Is Promised On Judicial Pay

Friday, January 11, 2008

Free: Citing Economic Hardship, Upstate Judge Plans to Quit

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

An upstate Supreme Court justice, who has not received a pay increase since he took office in 2001, plans to resign by the end of this month because of "the present unfortunate status of New York State's judiciary." Oneida County Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Julian signaled his intention in a letter dated Dec. 30 to Governor Eliot Spitzer and distributed by e-mail to the state's 1,300 judges.

Free: Kaye Proposes New Measure To Boost Pay of State Judges

Friday, January 4, 2008

A new judicial pay raise proposal offered yesterday by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye would surrender some ground on retroactivity while tying future increases to salaries and cost-of-living adjustments given to federal judges. While previous proposals by the chief judge provided for retroactivity to April 1, 2005, the current legislation would provide for retroactive raises for state judges to Jan. 1, 2007.


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Thursday, December 20, 2007

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Friday, December 14, 2007

Free: U.S. Judge Pay Bill Moves Past House Panel

Thursday, December 13, 2007

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Free: Senate Republicans to Float Bill for Judges-Only Pay Hike

Thursday, December 6, 2007

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Monday, December 3, 2007

Free: Most of Pay Lawsuit Rejected; Last Issue Draws Skepticism

Monday, December 3, 2007

Acting Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. McNamara has dismissed a variety of constitutional and statutory arguments made by three judges seeking their first pay increase since January 1999. He allowed one claim - that the lack of a pay increase has impinged on the independence of the judiciary - to proceed to trial but indicated that the plaintiffs would face an uphill battle.

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