In a commentary on the $134 billion budget proposal he submitted to the Legislature, Governor David A. Paterson suggested yesterday that the court system was guilty of conducting "business as usual" by advancing a 7.4 percent spending increase that ignores the "reality" of the state's rough fiscal circumstances. In an equally blunt public response, Chief Judge Lippman shot back that courts in New York are as overworked as they have ever been, and that virtually all of the $183.5 million increase requested by the courts is needed to meet salary and benefit payments for which the system is contractually obligated.
January 20, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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ALBANY – Governor David A. Paterson suggested yesterday that the court system was guilty of conducting “business as usual” by advancing a 7.4 percent spending increase that ignores the “reality” of the state’s rough fiscal circumstances.
In addition to urging the court system and legislators to revisit the judiciary’s $2.7 billion spending plan, the governor called for increasing Civil Court filing fees—a measure Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has opposed.
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