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ALBANY TIMES UNION
Paper Trail of Suppression, Protectionism,
Blackballing, & Election-Rigging

2011

CJA's June 13, 2011 e-mail to Seiler, Odato, Karlin, Vielkind --
"NY's Commission on Judicial Confirmation: NOT OPERATIONAL OR ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC on day 73 of its maximum 150-day statutorily-limited existence"
 
        
(enclosing CJA's 6-10-11 FOIL request to OCA
-- "Request for Records of Judicial Resignations Based on Insufficient Compensation")

CJA's June 18, 2011 e-mail to Seiler, Odato, Karlin, Vielkind --
"'New York judges ask for 41-percent raise, retroactive pay'
--UPDATE: NY's Judicial Compensation Commission"



CJA's June 24, 2011 e-mail to Seiler, Odato, Karlin, Vielkind --
"NY Judicial Compensation Commission: (1) Subject to Open Meetings Law & Executive Order #3, Requiring Public Access, Etc.; (2) Disqualifying Conflict of Interest of Chairman Thompson, Requiring His Resignation"

         attaching

CJA's June 23, 2011 letter to Governor Cuomo's Appointees to the Judicial Compensation Commission -- "(1) Bringing Public Accessibility, Input, and Accountability to the Judicial Compensation Commission -- Facilitated by the Open Meetings Law & Executive Order #3; and  (2) Chairman Thompson's Disqualifying Conflict of Interest, Requiring his Resignation" -- June 23, 2011 transmittal letter to indicated recipients          


CJA's June 28, 2011 e-mail to Seiler, Odato, Karlin, Vielkind --
"Is NY's Judicial Compensation Commission Violating the Open Meetings Law & its Video Broadcast Obligations under Executive Order #3"

CJA's June 30, 2011 e-mail to Seiler, Odato, Karlin, Vielkind --
"AGAIN -- Is NY's Judicial Compensation Commission Violating the Open Meetings Law & its Video Broadcast Obligations under Executive Order #3"
 

CJA's July 13, 2011 e-mail to Seiler, Odato, Karlin, Vielkind --
"FOR PRESS FOLLOW-UP: Today's Gannett Article on Judicial Pay Raises"


CJA's November 14, 2011 e-mail to Seiler, Odato, Karlin, Vielkind --
"Invitation: Today's Gotham Gazette: 'Who Judges the Judges?'"


CJA's November 15, 2011 e-mail to Seiler/President-Legislative Correspondents Association President & Albany Times Union Capital Bureau Chief -- cc: Odato, Vielkind, Karlin, Gavin --
"Second Invitation:  Gotham Gazette: 'Who Judges the Judges?'"

         attaching:
      
Executive Summary to CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
    CJA's November 1, 2011 letter to Budget Director Megna

                
Seiler's November 15, 2011 e-mail --
"Thanks for the invite"


CJA's November 15, 2011 e-mail to Seiler -- cc: Odato, Vielkind, Karlin, Gavin --
"Fundamental Decency & Issues of Legitimate Public Concern"  
   attaching:
    
  Executive Summary to CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
      CJA's November 1, 2011 letter to Budget Director Megna
   
  "Bar Association thumbs-down on plan for judicial raises",
            Capitol Confidential, August 26, 2011 (Seiler)
      "Jurist raises: What's affordable?", July 21, 2011 (Gavin)
     
"Raises, at last, for N.Y. judges", July 19, 2011 editorial
     
"A down payment on justice in N.Y.", August 30, 2011 editorial

  
 

CJA's November 21, 2011 e-mail to Seiler -- cc: Odato, Vielkind, Karlin, Gavin --
"AWAITING RESPONSE:  Fundamental Decency & Issues of Legitimate Public Concern" 

   attaching:
 
 
    Executive Summary to CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
      CJA's November 1, 2011 letter to Budget Director Megna
    
 "Bar Association thumbs-down on plan for judicial raises", Capitol Confidential,
                      August 26, 2011 (Seiler)
    
"Jurist raises: What's affordable?", July 21, 2011 (Gavin)
   
  "Raises, at last, for N.Y. judges", July 19, 2011 editorial
    
"A down payment on justice in N.Y.", August 30, 2011 editorial

      SEE Albany Times-Union "Rules of engagement" & Editorial Board members 
   Rex Smith's "TU Editors' Blog -- 'Public Scrutiny is a biblical fight" (Nov. 21, 2011)    

 


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