Sentences with phrase «take judicial pay»

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.

Not exact matches

But the nature of last week's executions is a stark wake - up call that we must pay closer attention to the more subtle judicial and political crack - downs taking place.

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.

They also took the opportunity to vote down the government's attempt to create a presumption that interveners in judicial review proceedings should pay their own costs.

This is not new and is in keeping with the judicial approach taken in discrimination and equal pay cases.

In the most important case in decades to rule on the admissibility of medical bills to prove damages, Law v. Griffith, slip op., July 20, 2010, the Supreme Judicial Court held that bills for medical care were presumptively evidence of the value of that care and that a defendant may not rebut or impeach that evidence by proving that the care provider took pennies on the dollar, but that such bills could be impeached with evidence that most insurers pay pennies on the dollar for the same services.

Or, as somebody said at a lecture I heard recently, the KEY problem with the legal systems in developing problems is judicial salaries: that is, judges aren't paid enough to limit, as much as practical, the need to take bribes to survive.