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COMPENDIUM OF EXHIBITS -- Volume 1
Exhibit A-1:
CJA’s May 23, 2011
letter to Governor Cuomo, Temporary “RE: (1) NYS’s Commission on Judicial Compensation – Inoperative & Inaccessible to the Public;
(2) Evidence Disentitling NYS’s Judiciary to Increased
Compensation, Presented and Proffered by the Public at the NYS
Senate Judiciary Committee’s June 8, 2009 and September 24, 2009
Public Hearings – as to which There Has Been No Investigation,
No Findings, and No Committee Report”
Exhibit A-2:
CJA’s May 23, 2011
transmittal letter to Commissioners Fiske, “RE: (1) NYS’s Commission on Judicial Compensation – Inoperative & Inaccessible to the Public; (2) Evidence Disentitling NYS’s Judiciary to Increased Compensation, Presented and Proffered by the Public at the NYS Senate Judiciary Committee’s June 8, 2009 and September 24, 2009 Public Hearings – as to which There Has Been No Investigation, No Findings, and No Committee Report”
Exhibit B-1: CJA's June 28, 2011 letter to ChairmanThompson & Commissioners Cotton, Mulrow “RE: (1) Bringing Public Accessibility, Input, and Accountability to the Judicial Compensation Commission – Facilitated by the Open Meetings Law & Executive Order #3; (2) Chairman Thompson’s Disqualifying Conflict of Interest, Requiring his Resignation”
Exhibit B-2:
CJA’s June 23, 2011 transmittal letter to
Commissioners Fiske, Exhibit C-1: CJA’s June 28, 2011 e-mail to Commissioners “Subject: Is NY’s Judicial Compensation Commission Violating the Open Meetings Law & its Video Broadcast Obligations under Executive Order #3”
Exhibit C-2: CJA’s June 30, 2011 letter to Commissioners “RE: AGAIN – Is NY’s Judicial Compensation Commission Violating the Open Meetings Law & its Video Broadcast Obligations under Executive Order #3?”
Exhibit C-3: CJA’s June 30, 2011 transmittal letter to Governor Cuomo, Temporary Senate President Skelos, Assembly Speaker Silver, Chief Judge Lippman, etc. “RE: AGAIN – Is NY’s Judicial Compensation Commission Violating the Open Meetings Law & its Video Broadcast Obligations under Executive Order #3?”
Exhibit D-1: CJA’s July 12, 2011 e-mail to the Commissioners “Subject: Request to Testify at the July 20, 2011 Public Hearing & Other Requests on Behalf of the Public”
Exhibit D-2: CJA’s July 13, 2011 e-mail to the Commissioners “Subject: FOIL Obligations of the Judicial Compensation Commission”
Exhibit D-3:
Chairman Thompson’s July
19, 2011 FOIL
Exhibit D-4: CJA’s July 21, 2011 letter to the Commissioners “RE: The Present Uselessness of the Commission’s Website”
Exhibit D-5: Chairman Thompson’s August 16, 2011 FOIL response
Exhibit E-1: CJA’s July 19, 2011 letter to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman “RE: (1) Vindicating the Public’s Rights against Judicial Fraud: The Court of Appeals’ February 23, 2010 Decision Underlying BOTH the Creation of the Commission on Judicial Compensation & the Perpetuation of the Judicial Compensation Lawsuits; (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”
Exhibit E-2: July 26, 2011 letter from Attorney General Schneiderman’s Records Access Officer – FOIL Request #110450
Exhibit E-3: August 24, 2011 letter from Attorney General Schneiderman’s Records Access Officer – FOIL Request #110450
Exhibit E-4: September 26, 2011 letter from Attorney General Schneiderman’s Records Access Officer – FOIL Request #110450
Exhibit F-1: Furnished at July 20, 2011 hearing: CJA’s handout to Commissioners “NO PAY RAISES FOR NYS JUDGES WHO CORRUPT JUSTICE – THE MONEY BELONGS TO THE VICTIMS!”
Exhibit F-2: Furnished at July 20, 2011 hearing: CJA’s draft testimony for Senate Judiciary Committee’s aborted December 16, 2009 hearing on the Commission on Judicial Conduct & court-controlled attorney discipline system
Exhibit F-3: Furnished at July 20, 2011 hearing: Elena Sassower’s testimony for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s March 6, 2007 hearing, in opposition to confirmation of Chief Judge Judith Kaye to the New York Court of Appeals
Exhibit F-4: Furnished at July 20, 2011 hearing: Doris L. Sassower’s testimony for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s March 6, 2007 hearing, in opposition to confirmation of Chief Judge Judith Kaye to the New York Court of Appeals
Exhibit F-5: Submission of Catherine Wilson: July 12, 2011 e-mail “Subject: OCA has been giving judges raises all along via other methods – double-dipping of pensions, increases in expense reimbursements, payments for committee memberships, extra pay for serving in other courts, elimination of contribution for benefits”
Exhibit G: CJA’s August 1, 2011 letter to Commissioner Wylde & Other Commissioners, New York Law Journal, Bar Leaders Testifying at July 20, 2011 Hearing “RE: Ensuring that the Commission on Judicial Compensation’s Recommendations and Report are Based on Evidence: The Absence of Evidence that Judicial Compensation has Deterred Qualified Private Sector Lawyers from Becoming Judges”
Enclosure:
Exhibit H: CJA’s August 5, 2011 letter to New York Times Reporter William Glaberson “RE: Setting the Record Straight: Ensuring that the Public & New York’s Judicial Compensation Commission are Not Misled by New York Times’ Reporting & Editorializing about ‘Judicial Attrition’ and the Purportedly Insufficient Pay of New York State Judges” Enclosures: (1) CJA’s June 6, 2011 FOIL request (2) OCA’s July 22, 2011 response
(3)
CJA’s June 13, 2011
e-mail,
(4)
ABAJournal.com – “What
America’s Lawyers Earn” – NY’s 62 Counties
COMPENDIUM OF EXHIBITS -- Volume 2
Exhibit I: CJA’s August 8, 2011 letter to Commissioners “RE: Threshold Issues Barring Commission Consideration of Pay Raises for Judges: (1) Chairman Thompson’s Disqualification for Interest, as to which there has been No Determination; (2) Systemic Corruption in New York’s Judiciary, Embracing the Commission on Judicial Conduct, as to which the has been No Determination; (3) The Fraud & Lack of Evidence Put Forward by Advocates of Judicial Pay Raises” Enclosures:
(2)
Comptroller Ed Reagan’s
1989 report
"COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL
CONDUCT -- NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PUBLIC: RESOLVING CHARGES AGAINST
JUDGES IS CLOAKED IN SECRECY"
,
with his press release,
"COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT NEEDS OVERSIGHT" (December 7, 1989)
Exhibit J-1: CJA’s August 17, 2011 letter to Commissioners “RE: Protecting the People of this State from Fraud: The Commission on Judicial Compensation’s Duty to Identify the Case Presented by Opponents of ANY Judicial Pay Raises & to Make Findings with Respect Thereto, in Discharge of its Statutory Responsibilities” Enclosure: (1) CJA’s August 16, 2011 letter to NYC Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo & Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Zachary Carter
Exhibit J-2 CJA’s August 17, 2011 letter to Advocates of Judicial Pay Raises “RE: Protecting the People of this State from Fraud: The Commission on Judicial Compensation’s Duty to Identify the Case Presented by Opponents of ANY Judicial Pay Raises & to Make Findings with Respect Thereto, in Discharge of its Statutory Responsibilities”
Exhibit J-3: August 17, 2011 e-mail transmittal to NYC Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo, Mayor’s Advisory Committee Chairman Zachary Carter; Bar Leaders Testifying at the July 20, 2011 hearing, Victor Kovner/Chairman, Fund for Modern Courts; Brennan Center for Justice: Michael Waldman/Executive Director; J. Adam Skaggs/Senior Counsel, Democracy Program “Subject: Protecting the People of this State from Fraud: The Commission on Judicial Compensation’s Duty…in Discharge of its Statutory Responsibilities”
Exhibit J-4: August 19, 2011 e-mail transmittal to Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau, Former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, Coalition of NYS Judicial Associations’ Organizers Judges W. Dennis Duggan & Daniel Turbow; Joseph L. Forstadt, Esq./Counsel-Associations of Supreme Court Justices; Former Appellate Division, Second Department Justice Robert Spolzino “Subject: Protecting the People of this State from Fraud: The Commission on Judicial Compensation’s Duty…in Discharge of its Statutory Responsibilities”
Exhibit J-5: August 22, 2011 e-mail transmittal to Martin Cirincione/Deputy Director/NY Prosecutors Training Institute, Inc.; Dorchen Leidholdt/Director-Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services/Sanctuary for Families; Catherine Cerulli/Associate Professor-University of Rochester School of Medicine “Subject: Protecting the People of this State from Fraud: The Commission on Judicial Compensation’s Duty…in Discharge of its Statutory Responsibilities”
Exhibit J-6: CJA’s August 19, 2011 letter to Denis M. Hughes, President/New York State AFL-CIO “RE: Request for a Meeting & Reconsideration by the New York State AFL-CIO of its Support for Judicial Pay Raises”
Exhibit J-7: CJA’s August 22, 2011 letter to New York State League of Women Voters & Citizens Union of New York City “RE: Request for a Meeting & Withdrawal of Support for Judicial Pay Raises”
Exhibit K-1: CJA’s August 23, 2011 letter to Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau “RE: Ensuring that the Commission on Judicial Compensation is Not Led into Constitutional Error: Clarification of the Office of Court Administration’s ‘Memorandum discussing constitutional considerations in establishing judicial pay levels’ – and the Substantiating Evidence”
Enclosures:
(1)
OCA “Memorandum discussing
constitutional considerations in establishing judicial pay levels”
(2)
CJA’s June 14, 2011 letter
to Chief Administrative Judge Pfau (1) Chief Administrative Judge Pfau’s December 7, 2007 and September 23, 2008 Administrative Orders (2) "Introduction” and “Questions Presented” from appellant’s three appeal briefs (3) March 16, 2011 letter to Appellate Division Justices Skelos, Eng, Hall, & Lott (4) May 23, 2011 letter to Governor Cuomo, Temporary Senate President Skelos, Assembly Speaker Silver, Chief Judge Lippman
Exhibit K-2: August 25, 2011 acknowledgment letter from OCA Counsel John McConnell
Exhibit L: CJA’s August 26, 2011 letter to Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau “RE: PART 2 – Ensuring that the Commission on Judicial Compensation is Not Led into Constitutional Error: Clarification of the Office of Court Administration’s ‘Memorandum discussing constitutional considerations in establishing judicial pay levels’ – and the Substantiating Evidence” Enclosure: ABAJournal.com – “What America’s Lawyers Earn” –
Exhibit M: CJA’s September 2, 2011 letter to Commission “RE: Not Accessible to the Public: (1) The Videos of the Commission’s Hearing and Meetings; (2) the Commission’s ‘Final Report’; and (3) ‘All of the comments and submissions’ Received by the Commission, Including CJA’s August 17, 2011 Letter Entitled ‘Protecting the People of this State From Fraud…”
FREE-STANDING EXHIBITS:
OCTOBER 15, 2002 MOTION FOR REARGUMENT, VACATUR FOR FRAUD,
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