Court: State Legislature was wrong to stall judge pay
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's highest court says it was wrong
for the Legislature to tie judges' pay raises to lawmakers' own raises and other issues such as campaign finance reform. The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday said the Legislature should now consider pay raises for the state's 1,300 judges on its own, but the court stopped short of telling the Legislature what to do. In three separate lawsuits, several judges claimed the Legislature's failure to increase judicial pay in more than a decade violated New York's constitution. Two midlevel courts agreed, though a third rejected the claim. (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) |
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