In
the judicial pay commission's first meeting since court administrators urged immediate pay parity between state Supreme Court justices and federal district court judges, some members appeared to latch onto the court proposal.
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.
At issue is a wrinkle in the state's
judicial pay commission, which increased pay for judges last year, with the base pay for a Supreme Court justice growing to $ 193,000 in 2016 and $ 203,000 in 2018.
Not exact matches
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.
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman took to cyberspace yesterday to formally endorse the three - year
pay raise proposal approved last week by the
Judicial Compensation
Commission.
«District Attorney salaries are directly tied to statutorily required increases in
judicial pay, which were recently recommended by the NYS Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation,» said spokesman Rich Az
judicial pay, which were recently recommended by the NYS
Commission on Legislative,
Judicial and Executive Compensation,» said spokesman Rich Az
Judicial and Executive Compensation,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.
The Assembly worked until 4 a.m. Tuesday, and managed to pass bills that created a
commission to examine
judicial pay and an education bill that would freeze the per - child allowance
paid by school districts to charter schools.
The lack of support from Mr. Cuomo's nominees, combined with abstentions by the
commission's
judicial nominees, doomed a proposal to substantially increase lawmakers»
pay, currently fixed at $ 79,500 a year.
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.
James Coll, a veteran New York City detective who lectures on constitutional law, is appealing a Long Island judge's recent dismissal of his lawsuit seeking to kill a
commission considering state legislative, executive, and
judicial pay raises.
New York's judges are poised to receive a significant
pay raise come April after going more than a decade without one, thanks to a recommendation of the Cuomo - formed
Judicial Compensation
Commission.
As for whether the budget would be late, Cuomo suggested lawmakers would not be deserved a
pay raise — to be decided by a
pay commission with a mix of executive,
judicial and legislative appointees — if a spending plan is not approved in a timely fashion.
The New York State
Commission on Legislation Judiciary and Executive Compensation has until the end of the year to recommend
judicial pay rates, and until next November for legislative
pay rates.
Judge Alan Simon, who presided over the Spring Valley Village Court and the Ramapo Town Court in Rockland County, was found by a
judicial oversight
commission to have a history of bullying and verbally abusing court staffers, and has been suspended with
pay pending a review of the allegations against him.
The
Judicial Pay Compensation
Commission approved a new proposal today that would gradually increase minimum for jurists through 2014 to $ 174,000 in a 4 - 3 vote.
A veteran New York City detective who lectures on constitutional law is appealing a Long Island judge's recent dismissal of his lawsuit seeking to kill a
commission considering state legislative, executive, and
judicial pay raises.
Robert L. Megna, Budget Director speaks during a hearing by the NYS Special
Commission on
Judicial Compensation about judges
pay raises in Albany, N.Y. July 20, 2011.
On Wednesday, the seven - member state
Commission on
Judicial Compensation, a panel formed to rule on the issue of
pay hikes, heard from several witnesses at a hearing in the Legislative Office Building.
The allowances were allegedly
paid outside the approved Remuneration Package for Political, Public and
Judicial Office Holders by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal
Commission (RMAFC) and the extant Revised Financial Regulations of the Federal Government of Nigeria, 2009.
Furthermore, I agree with the Times Union that if a
pay raise is provided by the Special Commission on Legislative, Judicial, & Executive Compensation Commission, the Legislature will most likely not lift a finger to stop it («Be Honest on Pay Hike», Aug. 1
pay raise is provided by the Special
Commission on Legislative,
Judicial, & Executive Compensation
Commission, the Legislature will most likely not lift a finger to stop it («Be Honest on
Pay Hike», Aug. 1
Pay Hike», Aug. 17).
A week after New Yorkers go to the polls on Nov. 8, the state
Commission on Legislative,
Judicial, & Executive Compensation faces its deadline to recommend potential
pay increases for state lawmakers as well as senior members of the executive branch.
If you think that the Legal Services
Commission has let you down, the Presidency of the Social Security and Child Support Appeal Tribunals is up for grabs from next April at # 129,900 per annum so long as you have had
judicial experience in a salaried or fee
paid capacity.
In 2013, the Georgia
Judicial Qualifications
Commission suspended a judge for sixty days without
pay and reprimanded him for failing to recuse himself after engaging in a private Facebook chat advising a woman about a DUI matter.
Savage dismissed a
judicial review brought by the association after the B.C. Legislative Assembly in 2013 rejected the recommendations of an independent
pay commission.
The state's
Commission on
Judicial Conduct had recommended that Murphy also be required to
pay a fine of $ 25,000.
First and foremost, thanks to the vision and leadership of the Legislature and former Governor Paterson, a permanent quadrennial
judicial compensation
commission was enacted into law to take
judicial pay out of the political arena... While every one of us must be prepared to make sacrifices in this era of tough choices, judges have begun their 13th consecutive year of sacrifice — and that's just too much based on any objective standard.
In September of 2016 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended without
pay for the remainder of his term by the state's
judicial disciplinary commission (Court of the Judiciary) on a complaint from the state judicial investigatory arm (the Judicial Inquiry Comm
judicial disciplinary
commission (Court of the Judiciary) on a complaint from the state judicial investigatory arm (the Judicial Inquiry Co
commission (Court of the Judiciary) on a complaint from the state
judicial investigatory arm (the Judicial Inquiry Comm
judicial investigatory arm (the
Judicial Inquiry Comm
Judicial Inquiry
CommissionCommission).
In September of this year Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended without
pay for the remainder of his term by the state's
judicial disciplinary commission (Court of the Judiciary) on a complaint from the state judicial investigatory arm (the Judicial Inquiry Comm
judicial disciplinary
commission (Court of the Judiciary) on a complaint from the state judicial investigatory arm (the Judicial Inquiry Co
commission (Court of the Judiciary) on a complaint from the state
judicial investigatory arm (the Judicial Inquiry Comm
judicial investigatory arm (the
Judicial Inquiry Comm
Judicial Inquiry
CommissionCommission).
Asked by the state
Commission on
Judicial Conduct to impose a 90 - day suspension without pay, four of the court's nine judges agreed that Eiler had violated the canons of judicial ethics but instead ordered a five - day sus
Judicial Conduct to impose a 90 - day suspension without
pay, four of the court's nine judges agreed that Eiler had violated the canons of
judicial ethics but instead ordered a five - day sus
judicial ethics but instead ordered a five - day suspension.
And while recruitment of fee -
paid judges has slowed down, the
Judicial Appointments
Commission is now seeking to recruit a further 303 deputy district judges, with another competition for salaried district judges to follow.