Judge says pay suit can continue
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- November
- 30
  A lawsuit by state judges who want a raise can proceed, a state Supreme Court judge in Albany ruled Friday.
The ruling by Judge Thomas J. McNamara means that the case can proceed to trial, said Steven Cohn, the lawyer representing the judges.
 Cohn said a conference has been set for Dec. 19 to determine a trial date. “Basically it means he found some merit to the allegations in our complaint,’’ Cohn said.
 Judges haven’t had a raise since 1999. The suit, which raise the novel issue of how can a judge preside over a case that may give him a raise, would hike the pay of Supreme Court judges from $136,700 a year to $165,000.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
