Sentences with phrase «for judicial salaries»

What's the status of the recommendations for judicial salary increases and judicial campaign reforms that the Study Commission on the Mississippi Judicial System provided to Mississippi's Legislature in December 2001?

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Members of the state Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation today are set to meet in New York City to determine whether to increase the pay for 213 members of the state Legislature, hiking their salaries from the base $ 79,500 to as much as $ 116,900 a year.

Salaries for New York State Judges were last adjusted in 1999, and as a result, judicial salaries have become an increasing subject of controversy in recenSalaries for New York State Judges were last adjusted in 1999, and as a result, judicial salaries have become an increasing subject of controversy in recensalaries have become an increasing subject of controversy in recent years.

County officials are pressuring Albany lawmakers to pass the bill after a judicial pay commission recommended pay hikes for state judges, whose salaries are linked to that of district attorneys.

Also on the agenda, which appears in full after the jump: Renaming the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel for former Gov. Hugh Carey and creating a commission to evaluate and adjust judicial salaries (no mention of legislative salaries, which have traditionally been linked to judicial pay).

Cuomo's comments came after a dust up last week on the commission examining salaries in the legislative, judicial and executive branches in state government over whether legislators were making a clear enough argument for a pay raise.

In Albany, governors and legislative leaders have usually tied judicial raises — popular in polls — to raising their own salaries, which has been a politically dicey move for decades.

The aim, for example, to broaden the range of judicial decisions that are made by non-judges (and even non-lawyers), under the «supervision» of judges, is more concerned with greater centralisation of services and with savings in the judicial salaries budget.

Kentucky: constitutional amendment would change way judicial / public official salaries are determined, allow for voter rejection

Maybe the Chief Justice's exclusion from the SCOTUS millionaire's club may explain why he's long been such an avid advocate for increases in judicial salaries.

HJR 1096 Allows salary increases for trial judges, but not for appellate judges, as recommended by Board on Judicial Compensation.

Last week, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ushered in the New Year with his annual pitch for increasing judicial salaries in order to attract and retain qualified jurists to the bench.

The federal judicial pension is extremely generous — a judge can retire at age 65 with only 15 years of judicial service (or at 70 with 10 years), and receive his full salary for life; nor does he make any contribution to funding the pension.

A 2015 law that links the salaries of Colorado's state legislators and top executive officials to judicial salaries could be heading for a partial repeal.

Nearly every state has a constitutional provision related to judicial salaries and compensation, however they vary widely in terms of whether or not such items can be reduced or increased (as was the case in Arkansas for decades) and if so under what conditions.

As introduced and initially approved (see here and here and here) Arkansas» HJR 1009 of 2013 eliminated that state's constitutional guarantee that judicial salaries could not be diminished (Amendment 80, Sec. 16 (E) «Such salaries and expenses may be increased, but not diminished, during the term for which such Justices or Judges are selected or elected.»)

The Ohio Senate yesterday approved a plan (SJR 1) to create a Public Office Compensation Commission with the power to reduce judicial salaries mid-term in cases of fiscal emergency, a departure from a 2014 proposal which would have allowed them to be diminished for any reason.

SB 258 Changes the timing of determination of weighted case units for the purpose of calculating the judicial branch operating budget request and judicial salaries from October to July.

This year, however, the Oklahoma legislature approved, and the Governor has now signed, an increase in judicial salaries for trial judges only (i.e. District Court Judges, Associate District Court Judges, and Special District Court Judges) as HJR 1096 of 2014.

The disparity between judges» salaries and those of their private sector colleagues is frequently invoked as justification for judicial pay raises.

Employment agency Reed is liable for up to # 158m unpaid tax due on the salaries of thousands of temps it employed, after it lost its judicial review.

Eric Turkewitz of New York Personal Injury Blog views the recent increases as a wake - up call for increasing judicial pay, noting that at $ 160,000 a year plus bonus, first - year associate salaries surpass those of federal judges (who make $ 162,500 annually).

Trends to watch for in 2014 session: merit selection, retirement age, judicial salaries, retirement systems, int» l / sharia law use by state courts

A plan set for a vote in the Michigan House today would tie judicial salary increases to those given to state employees.

«Given the fact that over 90 per cent of the budget of the Court went to pay judicial salaries and benefits, the proposed level of cuts was impossible and the proposal itself created a real potential for significant harm to the justice system.

Oklahoma: House votes to give only trial judges raises; delinks at least for this year judicial salaries to those of other officials

Three states are actively debating the way in which to pay for, and increase, judicial salaries in their respective states.

Although Article III of the Constitution entrenches some protections for judges — the tenure and salary guarantees that were already protected in Great Britain by the Act of Settlement 1701 — prof. Groves shows that much of the architecture of judicial independence that observers of the American judiciary take for granted has no obvious foundation in the constitutional text.

Her salary as chief justice is listed as $ 405,400 per year, according to an index of judicial salaries set out by the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairsjudicial salaries set out by the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial AffairsJudicial Affairs Canada.

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