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Scheduling Meetings with Legislators 

CJA's December 16, 2013 e-mail
to Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation Ranking Member Montesano
-- "Subject: Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

CJA's December 16, 2013 e-mail
to Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation Chair Hevesi --
"Subject: Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"
-- webpage for June 4, 2013 letter

CJA's December 17, 2013 e-mail
to Senate Committee on Investigations & Government Operations Ranking Member Hoylman
-- "Subject: Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"
-- webpage for June 4, 2013 letter

CJA's December 17, 2013 e-mail
to Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair Helene Weinstein --
"Subject: The Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015: Safeguarding the Public Purse from Judicial Fraud & Larceny"

CJA's December 18, 2013 e-mail
to Assembly Ways & Means Committee Chair Herman Farrell --
"Subject: Meeting with Ways & Means Committee Chairman Farrell to Discuss Dec. 11 Letter for Rejection of Judiciary Budget"

CJA's December 18, 2013 e-mail
to Senate Committee on Investigations & Government Operations Chair Carl Marcellino --
"Subject: Request for a Meeting: The Legislature's Constitutional & Statutory Duty to Reject the Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"
-- webpage for June 4, 2013 letter

CJA's December 19, 2013 e-mail to Senator George Latimer --
"Subject: Request for a Meeting: The Judiciary's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

CJA's January 8, 2014 e-mail to Ranking Member Hoylman/Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations -- "Subject: 'Following the Money': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"  enclosure-Jan 7 letter

CJA's January 8, 2014 e-mail to Chairman Marcellino/Senate Committee on Investigations & Gov't Operations -- "Subject: FW: 'Following the Money': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

CJA's January 8, 2014 e-mail to Chairman Englbright/Assembly Committee on Governmental Operations -- "Subject: Following the Money': The Proposed Judiciary & Legislative Budgets for Fiscal Year 2014-2015"

CJA's February 6, 2014 e-mail to Chairman Bonacic & Ranking Member Hassell-Thompson/Senate Judiciary Committee -- "Subject: Request for a Meeting with Senators Bonacic & Hassell-Thompson and to make a presentation to the Senate Judiciary Committee  -- so that they can discharge their oversight responsibilities with respect to the Judiciary & its Budget"

CJA's February 18, 2014 e-mail to Senator Marcellino -- "Subject: Request from Constituents Linda, Cie, and Michael Sharp for Feb. 28 Meetng with Senator Marcellino"

CJA's February 21, 2014 e-mail to Rank & File Members of Senate Finance Committee & Assembly Ways and Means Committee -- "Subject: HEADS UP: What's Been Happening with the Judiciary & Legislative Budgets -- & Appropriations for the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption?"

CJA's February 24, 2014 e-mail to Rank & File Members of Senate Finance Committee & Assembly Ways and Means Committee -- "Subject: Again, HEADS UP!: What's Been Happening with the Judiciary & Legislative Budgets -- & Appropriations for the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption?"

CJA's February 24, 2014 e-mail to Chair Englebright & Ranking Member Duprey/Assembly Committee on Governmental Operations -- "Subject: REQUEST FOR MEETING: Budget Bill #S.6351/A.8551: Judiciary & Legislative Budgets -- & appropriations for Commission to Investigate Public Corruption" 

CJA's February 26, 2014 e-mail to Chairman Bonacic & Ranking Member Hassell-Thompson -- "Subject: At what committee meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee be reviewing the Judiciary's proposed budget -- & the Legislature's February 5th joint 'public protection' budget hearing thereon?"

CJA's February 26, 2014 e-mail to Rank & File Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee -- "Subject: Tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee Meeting -- AGENDA"

CJA's February 27, 2014 e-mail to Chairman Bonacic & Ranking Member Hassell-Thompson -- "Subject: The Senate Judiciary Committee's duty to scrutinize the Judiciary's proposed budget -- & to forward to Chief Administrative Judge Prudenti the questions enclosed with our Feb. 21st letter"

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INTENDED & UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
of the wilful and deliberate nonfeasance of the Senate Committee on Investigations & Government Operations & Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis, and Investigation with respect to CJA's June 4, 2013 letter

Cloning an unconstitutional statute establishing a commission on judicial compensation to establish a commission on legislative compensation

S.6196: prefiled by Senator Hoylman: 
Clarify that NYS Legislature is full-time legislative body & establish Commission on Legislative Compensation

12/30/13: "Ken Lovett, Your Article in Yesterday's News.Actually, it is News from 2009"

Erroneous fiscal notes for new judgeships,
resulting from an unamended statute for judicial compensation

-- unamended Judiciary Law Article 7B
section 221-e

S.6489
introduced by Senator Little, January 29, 2014

A.8701
introduced by Assemblyman Stec, February 4, 2014

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