2019 Commission on Legislative, Judicial
& Executive Compensation
The
Corruption & Fraud of the Three Non-Judge Witnesses Who
Testified in Favor of Judicial Pay Raises at the Commission's
Two Hearings
under construction (12-19-19)
-- come back later
New York City Bar Association
President Roger Maldinado
-- testified at the Commission's Nov. 4,
2019 hearing in Manhattan
click here for:
prior correspondence with the NYC Bar Association
CJA's July 26, 2011 letter to
Bar Leaders who testified at July 20, 2011 hearing
-- "The Average/Mean
Salaries of Your Lawyer Membership and of NY Lawyers; Their
Views of the Compensation of NY Judges, of the Quality of NY Judges,
of the Efficacy of Safeguarding Mechanisms -- and Whether Your
Bar Associations Have Examined These Issues"
CJA's August 1, 2011 letter to Maldonado
-- Chair/Council on Judicial Administration
--
"The Absence of Evidence that Judicial
Compensation has Deterred Qualified Private Sector Lawyers from
Becoming Judges"
fax
e-mail
CJA's
August 17, 2011 letter to Advocates of Judicial Pay Raises
-- "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"
e-mail
cc-e-mail:
CJA's August 5, 2011 letter to New York Times --
"Setting the Record
Straight: Ensurig that the Public & New York's Judicial Compensation
Commission are Not Misled by New York Times' Reporting and
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
cc-e-mail:
CJA's August 8, 2011 letter to the Commission --
"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 there has
been No Determination; & (3) The Fraud & Lack of Evidence Put
Forward by Advocates of Judicial Pay Raises.
Enclosures:
(1)
Transcription of Elena Sassower's July 20, 2011 testimony before the
Commission
(2)
"NOT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE
PUBLIC",
Report of NYS Comptroller Regan, 1989 --
with his press release,
"COMMISSION
ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT NEEDS OVERSIGHT"
(December 7, 1989)
(3)
Transcription of Elena Sassower's questions at the December 11, 2002
forum on the
Commission on Judicial Conduct, co-sponsored by NYS Bar Association
& Fund for Modern Courts
cc-e-mail:
CJA's August 23, 2011 letter to Chief Administrative Judge
Ann Pfau -- "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)
“Memorandum discussing constitutional considerations in
establishing judicial pay levels”
(2)
CJA's June 14, 2011 letter to Chief Administrative Judge Ann
Pfau
Attachments:
(1)
December 7, 2007 and September 23, 2008 Administrative
Orders
(2)
"Introduction” & "Questions Presented" from appellant’s
three appeal briefs
#1;
#2;
#3 & #4;
(3)
March 16, 2011 letter to App. Div Justices (Peter) Skelos,
Eng, Hall, and Lott;
(4)
May 23, 2011 letter to Appointing Authorities: Cuomo, (Dean)
Skelos, Silver, Lippman
cc-e-mail:
CJA's August 26, 2011 letter to Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau
-- "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:
“What America’s Lawyers Earn”—NYS’s 62 Counties
CJA's October 28, 2011 memo to Judicial Pay Raise
Advocates -- "Holding Government Accountable:
CJA's October 27, 2011 Opposition Report in Support of
Legislative Override of the Commission on Judicial
Compensation's Judicial Pay Recommendations & Other Relief"
e-mail
CJA's
October 27, 2011 Opposition Report
to the
Commission on Judicial Compensation's August 29, 2011 Report
New York State Bar Association
President
Henry Greenberg
-- testified at the Nov. 14, 2019
hearing in Albany
Contact
#1:
Moderator of June 16, 2015 forum --"Budgets and the Balance of
Power: The Lasting Impact of Silver v. Pataki
and How It Shapes the Future of Government in New York State",
sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute of
Gov't & Albany Law School
VIDEO: Introduction & Keynote
VIDEO #1: "Constitutional Framework"
VIDEO #2: "Perspective from the Players"
VIDEO #3: "Silver v. Pataki
in Practice"
VIDEO #4: "Discussion from the Trenches"
CJA's April 18, 2017 e-mail --
"In search of scholarship: 'Budgets and the Balance of Power:
The
Lasting Impact of Silver v. Pataki and How It Shapes the Future of
Government in New York State' -- June 16, 2015 forum"
CJA's April 18, 2017 e-mail to Greenberg.
CJA's July 20, 2017 e-mail --
"Subject: STILL in search of scholarship..."
CJA's October 6, 2017 e-mail --
"Subject:
Suing to Secure Constitutional Governance:
Surer & More Expedient
than a Constitutional Convention"
Contact
#2:
President of the NYS Bar
Association
CJA's June 27, 2019 e-mail to President Greenberg --
"GAPS in
scholarship on the NY Court of Appeals, including (1) its 2004 Silver v.
Pataki decision; (2) its subversion of appeals of right -- & mandatory
appeals by leave; (3) Judiciary Law 14 & disqualification/disclosure by the
Court's judges"
Immediately preceding correspondence with the NYS Bar Association
Fund for Modern Courts Executive
Director Dennis Hawkins
-- testified at the Commission's
Nov. 4, 2019 hearing in Manhattan
2.
June
9, 1994 letter from Dennis Hawkins/Chief/Corruption Investigation
Division
3.
CJA's
July 11, 1994 supplement
4.
CJA's
July 22, 1994 supplement
5.
CJA's
August 12, 1994 supplement
6.
Mr.
Hawkins' August 16, 1994 letter
7.
CJA's
August 26, 1994 notation on Mr. Hawkins' August 16, 1994 letter
8.
CJA's
September 9, 1994 fax to D.A. Hynes, enclosing CJA's September 9, 1994 letter to
WNBC-Channel 4 reporter Gabe Pressman, providing a specific question
for the Democratic candidates for Attorney General at the News Forum
debate
9.
CJA's
November 29, 1994 letter, enclosing
"Where Do You Go When
Judges Break the Law?",
CJA's $17,660 ad, published on the op-ed page of the October 26, 1994 New York Times, reprinted as a $2,280 ad in the November 1, 1994 New York Law Journal
click here for correspondence with
Fund
for Modern Courts
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