ALBANY – While granting themselves and 1,200 other state judges a pay raise would be an unprecedented step by the Court of Appeals, the Court could be guided by a case in which its judges defined the obligations of the other branches of state government.
In the protracted Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) litigation, the Court ultimately decided that the governor and Legislature had failed to provide students with the “sound, basic” education required by the state Constitution and ordered the other branches to spend billions more to meet their obligations.
