Over half a dozen good government groups this week issued their support for a bill that would effectively boost the budget and power of the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct, the oversight agency that investigates ethics complaints made against New York’s judges.
Read MoreFormer Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s sweeping but controversial plan to restructure, or “simplify,” the state’s court system is no more, the Eagle has learned.
Read MoreFifteen senior judges who were let go by top court officials in 2020 only to be rehired around half a year later could receive back pay for the months they were temporarily unemployed under new legislation introduced in the state legislature last week.
Read MoreA new piece of legislation aims to make the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct more transparent and to its expand its powers, allowing it to continue investigations into judges even after they retire or resign.
Read MoreAn ethics investigation into former Chief Judge Janet DiFiore allegedly started by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct last year has been temporarily closed as a result of the top judge’s retirement in August.
Read MoreLawrence Marks will step down as chief administrative judge of the New York court system at the end of the month. His retirement will leave the state’s massive court system without permanent leadership in its two most senior judicial positions for at least a month.
Read MoreThe call for the Commission on Judicial Nomination to diversify the group of candidates for chief judge it will soon recommend to Gov. Kathy Hochul intensified after a group of nearly two dozen State Senators wrote to the commission this week.
Read MoreJanet DiFiore, the top judge in New York and the face of the state’s entire court system, announced her resignation on Monday.
Read MoreBreaking from the New York City and State Bar Associations, several bar associations representing Latino and Hispanic legal professionals have begun to voice their opposition to court leaders’ plan to reform the state’s decades-old court structure.
Read MoreAttorneys representing indigent clients and children in Family Court, including a handful from Queens, rallied in Manhattan and Long Island Thursday to call for a pay raise after not seeing one in nearly two decades.
Read More“These rippling disparities impact the experiences of the New Yorkers who engage our civil justice systems.”
Read More“I'm just looking to do the best I can and when the staff is back later this week I'll be able to go at 100 percent.”
Read More“I never knew what retirement was until I got a taste of it and it's not as great as it may seem.”
Read MoreEveryone is coming back to the courts. Well, mostly everyone. Learn more about the rules and procedures of the court’s reopening here.
Read MoreJudicial salaries depend on the type of judge, and can vary from $240,000 for the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals to $189,000 for City Court Judges.
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