A Manhattan Supreme Court justice on Friday upended a litigation strategy designed by lawyers for the court system to push state lawmakers into passing legislation to raise judicial salaries.
Justice Edward H. Lehner ( See Profile) rejected a request for an expedited trial, starting June 2, at which Bernard W. Nussbaum, the lead counsel in Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye’s lawsuit to force a pay raise, had insisted he would call the leaders of the executive and legislative branches to testify about how they had linked judicial raises to other issues, principally a pay raise for the legislators themselves.
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