A New Jersey statute that increases pension and health care contributions for state employees, including judges, violates an age-old constitutional ban on diminishing judicial salaries, a divided New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The 3-2 court said the 2011 Pension and Health Care Benefits Act strikes at the heart of the principle that sitting judges ought not have to fear economic retribution for their decision-making.
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