N.Y. Judges may bring suit to force pay raise
The New York Law Journal reports:
As the New York Legislature prepared to begin passing the 10th consecutive budget that does not contain a pay raise for judges, Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye’s attorney on Monday outlined her possible suit to force lawmakers and the governor to break the salary impasse . . .
Kaye said the problem with the judicial pay increase was, once again, the refusal of some lawmakers to depart from tradition and raise judges’ salaries without also increasing their own. Neither judges nor legislators have gotten a raise since January 1999, and the chief judge said judges have since suffered a 26 percent erosion in salary due to inflation . . .