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Last Updated on Friday, 11 April 2008 09:30 Written by rslcpol Friday, 11 April 2008 09:30
Setting up an unprecedented legal showdown among the branches of the state government, the state’s chief judge yesterday sued Gov. David Paterson and the leaders of the Legislature to try to force them to raise judges’ salaries, which have been frozen since 1999.
“Today, owing to the near-decade-long pay freeze that they have endured, New York State judges … face the demeaning situation in which they can expect to earn less than first-year associates at many of the state’s law firms and considerably less than attorneys of comparable experience,” the judges’ lawyer, Bernard Nussbaum, said in court papers filed today in Manhattan.