THE NEW YORK TIMES
Paper Trail of Suppression, Protectionism,
Blackballing & Election-Rigging

 

2011

CJA's February 21, 2011 memo to Glaberson --
"PROPOSAL FOR COVERAGE:  The public’s 'views' of the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct, expressed at the NYS Senate Judiciary Committee hearings in 2009 – as to which neither the Senate Judiciary Committee, bar associations, nor advocacy organizations favored by The Times have rendered ANY report or made ANY findings"

CJA's February 21, 2011 memo to Editorial Board --
"REQUEST FOR A MEETING with the Editorial Board regarding prospective Times' editorials about the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct"

CJA's March 15, 2011 e-mail to Washington Bureau, National Bureau, Metro, Editorial Board, John Eligan, William Glaberson, James Barron --
"On Today's Senate Calendar: Confirmation of Former NY Solicitor General Caitlin Halligan to the US Court of Appeals to the DC Circuit"

March 15, 2011 e-mail acknowledgment from nytnews@nytimes.com

 

April 27, 2011: NEW YORK TIMES ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING --
              copies of February 21, 2011 letters & March 15, 2011 e-mail
                given to NYT Publisher Sulzberger

 

CJA's May 23, 2011 e-mail to Glaberson --
"(1) NYS Commission on Judicial Compensation -- Inoperative & Inaccessible to the Public; (2) The Public's Evidence -- Presented & Proffered at Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings, Disentitling the Judiciary to any Increased Compensation"
       attaching: CJA's May 23, 2011 letter to Governor Cuomo, Temporary Senate President Skelos, Assembly Speaker Silver & Chief Judge Lippman  --
"(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" 

CJA's June 6, 2011 e-mail to Albany Bureau: Danny Hakim, Nicholas Confessore; Metro Desk) --
"NYS Commission on Judicial Compensation -- Inoperative & Inaccessible to the Public"

CJA's June 13, 2011 e-mail to Metro Desk-Bill Glaberson, Albany Bureau-Danny Hakim, Nicholas Confessore, Editorial Board 
              attaching: 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 LCA roster, including Hakim, Confessore --
 "'New York judges ask for 41-percent raise, retroactive pay' --UPDATE: NY's Judicial Compensation Commission" (cc: NYT: Metro; William Glaberson, James Barron)

CJA's June 19, 2011 e-mail to Editorial Board --
"'New York judges ask for 41-percent raise, retroactive pay' --UPDATE: NY's Judicial Compensation Commission" (cc: NYT: Danny Hakim, Nicholas Confessore, Metro, William Glaberson, James Barron)

CJA's June 24, 2011 e-mail to press, including metro, Glaberson, Barron, Hakim, Confessore --
"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 press, including metro, Glaberson, Barron, editorial, Powell, Hakim, Confessore --
"Is NY's Judicial Compensation Commission Violating the Open Meetings Law & its Video Broadcast Obligations under Executive Order #3"

   July 3, 2011 
              front-page, above-the-fold, triple headline article by Glaberson: 
                   "JUDGES QUITTIING AT UNUSUAL RATE AS SALARIES LAG --
LAW FIRMS' RICH OFFERS --
A 12-Year Pay Freeze in New York -- Exits Once Were Rare"
     
                         internet version:  "Pay Frozen, More New York Judges Leave Bench"  
                          Today's paper  Posted Reader Comments: 1 to 25; 26-50; 51-75; 76-100; 101-125;
                              126-150; 151-175; 176-200; 201-214    MOST POPULAR -- N.Y./REGION                   

CJA's July 13, 2011 e-mail to press, including metro, Glaberson, Barron, Powell, editorial, Hakim, Confessore --
"FOR PRESS FOLLOW-UP: Today's Gannett Article on Judicial Pay Raises"

CJA's August 5, 2011 letter to Glaberson --
"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 July 6, 2011 FOIL request, with e-mail receipt 
         (2)  OCA’s July 22, 2011 response
         (3)  CJA’s June 13, 2011 e-mail, with attached June 10, 2011 FOIL request
         (4)  ABAJournal.Com: “What America’s Lawyers Earn”—NYS’s 62 Counties
 

CJA's September 1, 2011 letter to Public Editor Arthur Brisbane --
"Complaint against Reporter William Glaberson and the Editorial Board for Injuring the People of New York and Subverting their Constitutional Rights by  Knowingly False and Misleading Reporting and Editorializing on New York’s Judicial Compensation Issue"

Brisbane's September 1, 2011 e-mail acknowledgment

CJA's November 14, 2011 e-mail to Hakim --
"Invitation: Today's Gotham Gazette: 'Who Judges the Judges?'"
           --   11/14/11 Gotham Gazette:  "Who Judges the Judges?", by David King


CJA's November 17, 2011 letter to Public Editor Brisbane --
"Status of CJA's September 1, 2011 Complaint -- & the NYT's Responsibility to Mitigate the Damage to the Public's Rights and Purse Causes by its Knowingly False and Misleading Reporting and Editorializing on NY's Judicial Compensation Issue"  11/17/11 automated e-mail acknowledgment
        Attachment:   Executive Summary

Brisbane's November 30, 2011 e-mail --
"Re: Status of CJA's September 1, 2011 Complaint -- & the NYT's Responsibility to Mitigate the Damage to the Public's Rights and Purse Causes by its Knowingly False and Misleading Reporting and Editorializing on NY's Judicial Compensation Issue" 

                  

 

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