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 NYS JUDICIAL COMPENSATION

 


SECURING THE RECORDS OF THE JUDICIAL COMPENSATION LAWSUITS
 


I

from the Office of Court Administration & Court of Appeals

CJA's July 15, 2011 letter to the Office of Court Administration -- "RE: Request for Judicial Compensation Lawsuit Records Pursuant to 124 of the Rules of the Chief Administrator & FOIL"

OCA's July 22, 2011 responding letter

August 16, 2011 letter from James A. Costello, Assistant Deputy Clerk/Court of Appeals

II
from the Attorney General's Office

FOIL REQUEST 110450 -- Maron v. Silver, Larabee v. Governor, Kaye v. Silver

CJA's July 19, 2011 letter to Assistant Attorney General Joshua Pepper -- "RE: ...  (2) FOIL & Project Sunlight Requests: Posting of the Record of the Judicial Compensation Lawsuits on the Attorney General's Website -- &/or Providing the Record to the Center for Judicial Accountability for Posting on its Website"

July 26, 2011 letter from AAG Pepper 

August 24, 2011 letter from AAG Pepper

September 26, 2011 letter from AAG Pepper    CD from AG

CJA's December 1, 2011 letter to AAG Pepper -- (1) DEFICIENCIES IN YOUR RESPONSE TO FOIL REQUEST #110450: CJA’s July 19, 2011 letter: “ RE: … FOIL & Project Sunlight Requests for Posting of the Record of the Judicial Compensation Lawsuits on the Attorney General’s Website – &/or Providing the Record to the Center for Judicial Accountability for Posting on its Website”; (2)    NEW FOIL/PROJECT SUNLIGHT REQUEST: All publicly-available documents bearing upon: “the inexplicable failure of the Attorney General’s Office and the Dolan firm to have moved to reargue the palpably deficient February 23, 2010 decision before the Court of Appeals or to have filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, where the consequences were so violative of the New York Constitution and so potentially catastrophic to New York taxpayers – and where the dissent of Judge Smith would have dismissed all claims”  (CJA’s July 19, 2011 letter, at p. 8, underlining in the original)

December 8, 2011 letter to AAG Pepper

January 9, 2011 letter from AAG Pepper              CD from AG

FOIL REQUEST  120532  - PINES v. NEW YORK STATE

CJA's August 23, 2012 letter to Assistant Attorney General Joshua Pepper -- Request for Records -- Emily Pines, et al. v. State of New York, Pursuant to FOIL & Attorney General's Project Sunlight Initiative

August 30, 2012 letter from AAG Pepper

CJA's October 18, 2012 letter to AAG Pepper

AAG Pepper's October 29, 2012 letter    CD with Record on Appeal & briefs

CJA's March 5, 2013 letter

AAG Pepper's March 12, 2013 letter  
CD with memos of law

III
from the Mayor's Committee on the Judiciary


CJA's July 15, 2011 letter to the Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary -- "RE: Request for Copy of Amicus Brief"

Advisory Committee's responding e-mail

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Additional & related FOIL requests:

FOIL REQUEST TO ATTORNEY GENERAL:  #110599

CJA's September 19, 2011 letter to Assistant Attorney General Joshua Pepper --"RE: Request for Records Pertaining to Retention of Outside Counsel to Represent Defendants in the Judicial Compensation Lawsuits, Pursuant to FOIL & the Attorney General's Project Sunlight Initiative"

September 26, 2011 letter from AAG Pepper

October 26, 2011 letter from AAG Pepper

December 7, 2011 letter from AAG Pepper    CD with responsive documents 1-126

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CJA's September 6, 2011 letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo's Records Access Officer -- "RE: FOIL Request:  Records Pertaining to Governor David Paterson's Program Bill No. 333 to Establish a Special Commission on Judicial Compensation"
                       September 13, 2011 acknowledgment from Governor Cuomo's Records Access Officer
                      
September 15, 2011 response from Governor Cuomo's Records Access Officer

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CJA's September 7, 2011 letter to the Office of Court Administration's Records Access Officer --"RE:  Request for Chief Judge Kaye's "2005 Judicial Salaries Report" Pursuant to 124 of the Rules of the Chief Administrator & FOIL"
                       September 22, 2011 response from OCA Records Access Officer

 

predecessor bill:  S-6009-2010:  introduced by Senator Sampson "at the request of the Governor", June 19, 2009

      November 29, 2010 

May 2007 -- "Judicial Compensation in New York: A National Perspective"

 

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