A judge's decision voiding a wage freeze on Nassau County employees imposed by a state-appointed emergency board has been vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

The circuit said that Eastern District Judge Leonard Wexler (See Profile) should not have decided the issue of whether a wage freeze imposed on county employees in 2011 by the Nassau County Interim Financing Authority violated the limits on emergency oversight power granted by the Legislature in 2000 to address a fiscal crisis in Nassau County.

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