Chief Judge To Sue For Pay Raises
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Chief Judge Judith Kaye is filing a lawsuit today because of the state’s failure to give pay raises to judges.
Kaye has warned that if the pay raises were not included in the budget, she would sue on behalf of the roughly 1,250 state-level judges who have not had a raise in 10 years.
The lawsuit is expected to be filed at 1 p.m. today in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Kaye wants the current average salary of state Supreme Court judges to be raised from $136,700 to least $165,200, which is what federal district-court judges get paid and has long been the benchmark.
The state ranks second to last in the country for judicial raises.
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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. 
