6/12/2008
NY State judges decision
Unrelated to food, but very interesting, a New York judge today ordered the state legislature to raise judicial pay. Of course, New York judges should get much higher salaries (they should be paid sufficently, I would think, such that working as a temp in a law firm is actually a losing proposition) , but I really have to wonder about the wisdom of a judge siding with a lawsuit filed by judges in order to raise judges' pay. I'll have to read the opinion, but this should at the very least make the person sitting in judgment just the tiniest bit queasy.
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Inasmuch as it was a lawsuit filed under the state constitution and plaintiff and defendant are both in-state, and thus couldn't be decided by a federal judge, having it decided by a judge who would be affected by the decision is pretty much unavoidable.
As for whether a Family Court judge upstate needs to be paid as much as a first year at Skadden, I'm a bit skeptical, partly because I'm a big fan of *localized* salary decisions. If what is troubling is the failure to adjust for increases in the cost of living, I've got to think that the COL has gone up a lot more in NYC (even by rent/ home ownership alone) than it has in the rest of the state.
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