ALBANY – The state’s highest court will decide whether judges who are “certificated” to stay on the bench past age 70 should continue to receive state pensions for past judicial work—even as they draw a full salary as state Supreme Court justices.
The question before the Court of Appeals on March 21 has split two lower courts, with Acting Albany Supreme Court Justice Gerald Connolly ruling against the practice known as “double-dipping” and an Appellate Division, Third Department, ruling that the justices could collect pensions and salaries simultaneously (NYLJ, June 19, 2015).
