The Raise the Age legislation adopted as part of the new state budget could cost Monroe County more than $20 million to get off the ground and $13 million annually after it’s implemented next year. The startup cost includes $7.5 ...

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Years ago, when I was a trial court judge in Sacramento, the husband of one of my court staffers murdered their two children in front of her, beat her and then killed himself. All of us were unaware of her ...

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As President Donald Trump escalates his confrontation with the judiciary branch in tweets and speeches, lawmakers in some half a dozen states are testing their state courts’ independence with actual legislation. Bills have been proposed in Florida, Washington state and ...

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New York has approximately 2,150 town and village court judges. Of those, 1,450 or nearly 70% are nonlawyers. That is the greatest number and highest percentage in the country. For years the media, good government groups, and even the Office ...

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The Senate Judiciary Committee has created a new subcommittee focused on federal courts and the bankruptcy litigation system. The new Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and the Courts is one of the new subgroups created by splitting up the former Administrative Oversight ...

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A 41 percent pay increase for the state’s judges is being recommended by Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau. Her recommendation, on behalf of the judiciary, would restore the purchasing power of judges to the level their salaries had in 1999, the last time they received a pay hike.

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Rochester attorney Amy Bach wants to make the judicial system more just. She has started a new foundation, Measures for Justice Institute, to rank the performance of local trial courts throughout the nation, providing a yardstick for those within the system to gauge how they measure up.

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New York is not the only state trying to do more with less. The impact of court under funding was discussed Thursday by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman and several other Northeast judges at a hearing on the critical need for access to justice ...

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The numbers are in. After weeks of cost-cutting measures to minimize layoffs, the New York State Unified Court System on Wednesday announced 367 employees would be terminated effective June 1 from its workforce of more than 15,000.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s courts may be forced to close down if the current budget battle between Republicans and Democrats leads to a government shutdown, a federal judge said Tuesday. If the government shuts down ...

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U.S. District Court, Western District of New York Job Discrimination Equally-Qualified Job Candidates — Inference of Improper Discrimination Robinson v. Delphi Corp. 08-CV-6361 Judge Telesca Background: The plaintiff, a female, alleges that she was qualified for the position for which ...

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