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Judicial Pay Impasse
Free: OCA Contracts Put Three-Year Limit on Wage Hike Deferrals
Friday, May 9, 2008
Free: Judges Warned Against Tactics That Hurt 'Cause' for Pay Hike
Friday, May 2, 2008
Free: Kaye Writes Governor To Deny Work 'Slowdown'
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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Free: Newsbriefs
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Free: In Their Own Words: Bench and Bar Respond to Judicial Pay Deadlock
Wednesday, April 23, 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.
Newsbriefs
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.
Newsbriefs
Friday, March 28, 2008
Newsbriefs
Monday, March 24, 2008
Free: Citing Economy, Paterson Says Chances for Raise 'Very Difficult'
Friday, March 14, 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.
Free: Newsbriefs
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.
Free: Judges, Children, Globalization on State Bar Agenda
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.
Free: Newsbriefs
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.
Newsbriefs
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Newsbriefs
Friday, December 14, 2007
Free: U.S. Judge Pay Bill Moves Past House Panel
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Newsbriefs
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Free: Senate Republicans to Float Bill for Judges-Only Pay Hike
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Budget Request Would Fund Salary Boost
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.
