Sentences with phrase «judicial salaries»

By that logic, fewer judges would be needed to deal with more cases, reducing the cost of judicial salaries and pensions and the court estate.

Last fall, he finished his work as the chairman of a state committee reviewing judicial salaries.

However, unlike the 2014 bill, a 2015 committee amendment provided judicial salaries some degree of protection.

Currently judicial salaries are set as a percentage of the salaries of the supreme court.

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?

«This long overdue measure marks the first increase in judicial salaries in nearly a decade and is critical to ensuring that we continue to retain and attract quality legal talent to the state bench,» Murphy said in a statement.

Under HP 1006 the Judicial Compensation Commission would end; the existing State Compensation Commission would make recommendations for judicial salaries plus recommendations for the salary of the state's governors.

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Last year, Judge Posner expressed his opinion on judicial salaries on his blog.

Texas: House committee approves 3 - part formula to set judicial salaries; computation includes other states + US Court of Appeals + in - state first year attorneys

We were gratified indeed that the Volcker Commission last year identified federal judicial salaries as «the most egregious example of federal compensation policies.»

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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.

Like the 2014 bill, the 2015 bill does repeal the specific provision in the state's constitution prohibiting decreases in judicial salaries mid-term and replaces it with the Commission system.

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.

I mentioned previously Oklahoma's practice of linking judicial salaries to that of other officials, making a raise in salary for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, for example, result in a raise for the Governor.

That turns out to be nearly $ 70,000, which will rise soon when judicial salaries go up; legislators make $ 79,500.

Since the last judicial pay increase, New York State judges» salary levels have fallen precipitously behind those of their peers in other states, and New York currently ranks near the bottom of national judicial salaries.

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).

(The new commission would supersede and do away with a commission created in 2010 to recommend judicial salaries only.)

In essence, such proposals — proposals that would increase judicial salaries well above most public officials — can not be rationalized.

Finally, the higher percentage of federal judges from the public sector could have many causes, of which judicial salaries is only one, and I'm not sure the change is necessarily a bad thing.

Judicial salaries range from just under # 250,000 for the Lord Chief Justice and more than # 215,000 for Supreme Court Justices, to about # 180,000 for High Court judges, # 133,000 for Circuit judges and # 107,000 for District judges.

«There isn't much evidence that higher judicial salaries impact the performance of the federal circuit judges,» said Scott Baker, a law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law who recently tested the notion.

Oklahoma Legislative Year in Review: cutting the link between judicial salaries and those of other officials; appellate judges now have higher salaries than trial judges

As a result, there hasn't been an increase in judicial salaries since 2008 as lawmakers have rejected recommendations by the state's Board on Judicial Compensation (such as HJR 1093 of 2012 rejecting a proposed 6 % cost of living increase) out of concern they were also increasing executive branch salaries.

I've mentioned here and here the difficulty Oklahoma has had in terms of increasing judicial salaries through their linking process; the salaries of the state's executive branch officials are equal to those of judicial officials.

As my colleagues here at the National Center for State Court's Judicial Salary Tracker have confirmed, this makes Oklahoma the only state where trial judges make more than appellate judges; judges of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals will still make $ 130,410, or $ 1,425 less than that of a District Court Judge.

The debut issue includes an article that argues that raising judicial salaries would do nothing to improve judicial performance, another that contends that judges should be deferential in reviewing class action settlements, and others, all from well - known names in legal academia.

As the most recent edition of the Survey of Judicial Salaries indicates, Michigan judges have already had to wait 13 years since their latest salary increase the longest wait in the nation.

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

• the operation of the courts • the independence of the judiciary (which may include judicial salaries and benefits) • fundamental aspects of the administration of justice • or the personal integrity of the judge

There would not even be a federal appellate judicial salary issue if Congress would only maintain parity with inflation.

He is also a member of the Advocates» Society and the Canadian Bar Association; and has co-authored two comprehensive reports submitted by the CBA to the federal government; one on Judicial Salaries and Benefits and one on the Salaries and Benefits of the Prothonotaries of the Federal Court of Canada.

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In response, at least one member of the Iowa Senate is looking at the possibility of reducing judicial salaries.

«Will Higher Judicial Salaries Increase Quality?

There may be good reasons to increase federal judicial salaries (for example, to show added respect for the position or to keep pace with the cost of living); I'm just not so sure that the pay gap is one of them.

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.

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 Affairs Canada.

«There can be no doubt that, without the salary commission legislation, judicial salaries would not be on anyone's agenda in Albany today in the worst economic climate in decades,» Lippman said.

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 recent years.

Today, I am pleased to report that a 12 - year roadblock to the fair adjustment of judicial salaries has been removed.»

The Commission will determine what the judicial salaries shall be and will make recommendations to effect the changes to salaries.

«We tried to negotiate it in the budget, but the governor felt it was tied to the judicial salaries and so he wanted OCA to pay for those.»

«We have traditionally been in the bottom few states of judicial salary,» said state Supreme Court Judge William J. Condon of Suffolk County.

Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon has said the raise would make the county executive's salary equal to the district attorney, which is tied to judicial salaries and out of the hands of the legislature.