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NYS Judicial Compensation
COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL COMPENSATION'S
JULY 20, 2011 PUBLIC HEARING -- Albany, NY
Commission's witness
list
VIDEO
(windows player) [apparently removed by
Commission on Judicial Compensation -- & not accessible from their website]
VIDEO
(real media player) [apparently removed by
Commission on Judicial Compensation --& not accessible from their website]
Witness #25:
Elena Sassower, Director, Center for Judicial
Accountability, Inc. (CJA)
at 03:12:58 - 03:24:23
Transcription of Elena Sassower's Media-Suppressed Testimony
click here for:
CJA's judicial
compensation webpage to which she referred --
with its posting of CJA's letters to the Commission,
most importantly those of May 23rd and June 23rd
Here's the substantiating
documentation she submitted:
(1)
"NO PAY RAISES FOR NYS JUDGES WHO CORRUPT JUSTICE --
THE MONEY BELONGS TO THE VICTIMS" (copies handed up for each
Commissioner)
(2) CJA's final two motions in its
2-1/2 year public interest lawsuit vs NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct
[click
here for the entire record --
see: left sidebar panel:
Test Case-State-(Commission)]
CJA's
OCTOBER 15, 2002 MOTION FOR REARGUMENT, VACATUR FOR FRAUD, LACK OF
JURISDICTION, DISCLOSURE & OTHER RELIEF
TABLE OF
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A: CJA's October 7, 2002 letter to Chief Motion Clerk
Exhibit B-1: Court of Appeals' September 12, 2002 decision/order (#581)
Exhibit B-2: CJA's May 1, 2002 notice of motion for
disqualification/disclosure & pp. 1-8 of moving affidavit
Exhibit C-1: Ct of Appeals' September 12, 2002 decision/order (#719)
Exhibit C-2: CJA's May 1, 2002 notice of appeal
Exhibit C-3: CJA's June 17, 2002 notice of motion for sanctions, etc. vs.
Attorney General
Exhibit D: NYS Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers v. Kaye, 95
NY2d 556 (2000)
Exhibit E-1: Ct of Appeals' decision/order in Schulz v. NYS Legislature
(Mo.# 1075)
Exhibit E-2 Schulz v. NYS Legislature, 92 NY2d 917 (1998)
Exhibit F-1: Sims v. NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct, 62 NY2d 884
(1984)
Exhibit F-2: NY Criminal and Civil Bar Association v. NY, 46 NY2d 730
(1978)
Exhibit G: Robert Schulz' August 17, 1998 disqualification motion in
Schulz v. NYS Legislature
CJA's
OCTOBER 24, 2002 MOTION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL TO THE COURT OF APPEALS
TABLE OF
EXHIBITS
Exhibit
A-1: Appellate Division's December 18, 2001 decision/order
Exhibit
A-2: Appellate Division's March 26, 2002 order
Exhibit
B-1: Ct of Appeals' September 12, 2002 decision/order on disqualification (#581)
Exhibit B-2:
Ct of Appeals' September 12, 2002 decision/order on notice of appeal and
sanctions (#719)
Exhibit C: Justice Wetzel's January 31, 2000 decision/order
Exhibit D: Justice Cahn's July 13, 1995 decision/order in Doris L. Sassower v.
Commission
Exhibit E: Justice Lehner's September 30, 1999 decision/order in Mantell v. Commission
Exhibit F: Appellate Division's November 16, 2000 decision/order in Mantell v.
Commission
Exhibit G: CJA's March 3, 2000 letter to Chief Judge Kaye, with inventory of
transmitted record
Exhibit H: 3-page analysis of Cahn's July 13, 1995 decision in Doris
Sassower v. Commission
Exhibit I: 13-page analysis of Justice Lehner's September 30, 1999 decision in
Mantell v. Commission
Exhibit J: March 27, 2000 letter of Counsel, Unified Court
System
Exhibit K: 1-page analysis of Appellate Division's December 16, 2000 decision in
Mantell v. Commission
Exhibit L-1: 19-page analysis of Appellate Division's December 18, 2001 decision
(1/7/02 notice-complaint)
Exhibit L-2: Commission's February 27, 2002 acknowledgment letter
Exhibit M-1: "I rise in defense of state courts", Chief Judge Kaye,
Daily News, 1/17/02
Exhibit M-2: "State judicial system is accountable to public", Judge
Kaye, Albany Times Union, 2/10/02
(3)
CJA's
draft statement prepared for Senate Judiciary Committee's aborted December 16,
2009 hearing
(4) CJA's two
March 6, 2007opposition statements to confirmation by the NYS Senate of Chief Judge
Judith Kaye to the NY Court of Appeals: OPPOSITION
STATEMENT OF ELENA SASSOWER
&
OPPOSITION STATEMENT OF DORIS L. SASSOWER
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SIX OTHER NON-GOVERNMENT OPPOSITION WITNESSES
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ALL ALERTED TO THE HEARING BY CJA's "SPREAD
THE WORD" e-mail & internet advocacy
Witness #15:
William Galison, Citizens Against Judicial Corruption
(at 02:07:08 - 02:13:38)
Witness #20:
Jay Franklin, Toward Equal Justice Associates
(at 02:48:46 - 02:53:52)
Witness #31:
Raymond Zuppa, Esq.
Raymond Zuppa Memorial Foundation for Social
Justice Pro Bono Legal Action Project
(at 03:53:20 - 04:00:44)
Witness #32:
Terrence Finnan, Economic Blog
(at 04:00:47 - 04:05:57)
Witness #33:
Susan D. Sattenbrino, Esq.
(at 4:06:06 - 04:11:15)
Witness #34:
Henny Kupferstein, Founder of Coalition against Legal Abuse (NY
Chapter)
(at 04:11:16 - 04:14:33)
AND THE SINGLE OTHER OPPOSITION WITNESS --
NEW YORK's BUDGET
DIRECTOR ROBERT MEGNA
(at 00:32:34 - 00:56:17)
--
written statement
click here for SUBMISSIONS THE COMMISSION
HAS RECEIVED
CJA's
Challenges to the Advocates of Increased Judicial Compensation:
TO BAR LEADERS:
CJA's July 26, 2011 letter to the Bar Leaders Testifying at the July 20, 2011
Public Hearing of the NYS Commission on Judicial Compensation -- "RE:
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 Roger Juan Maldonado,
Chair, Council on Judicial Administration, New York City Bar Association -- "RE:
The Absence of Evidence that Judicial Compensation has Deterred Qualified
Private Sector Lawyers from Becoming Judges"
TO MAYOR'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY:
CJA's July 15, 2011 letter -- "RE: Request for Copy of Amicus Brief"
CJA's July 25, 2011 letter -- "RE: Request for Chairman Carter's
Written Testimony -- With Appendix -- Pertaining to Judicial Compensation"
July 25, 2011-- Committee's resending of July 28, 2011 e-mail
CJA's August 1, 2011 letter -- "RE: Request for Chairman Carter's
Written Testimony -- With Appendix -- Pertaining to Judicial Compensation"
August 2, 2011 e-mail from Mayor's Advisory
Committee, attaching Chairman Carter's written testimony with appendix
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Menu of CJA's
webpages on NYS Judicial Compensation:
CJA's
Lawsuit to Stop the Judicial Pay Raises as Unconstitutional,
Statutorily-Violative, & Fraudulent
CJA's
October 27, 2011 Opposition Report to the "Final Report of
the Commission on Judicial Compensation"
Judicial
Compensation Commission's July 20, 2011
Hearing & Related Info
--
CJA's hand-out &
referred-to webpage:
Bringing Transparency, Evidence & Public Accountability to
the One-Sided, Media-Created View
(Swallowed
Whole from the Judicial-Legal Establishment)
that NYS Judges are Underpaid & Entitled to a Raise
The
Judicial Compensation Lawsuits
& Court of Appeals Decision -- Both Fraudulent
The Press in Action -- A
Chronicle of Superficiality, Bias, & Journalistic Fraud
--
New York Law Journal coverage prior to CJA's May 23, 2011 letter
--
New York Times coverage prior
to CJA's May 23, 2011 letter
--
coverage by other press prior to CJA's June 13, 2011 letter
The
Sacrificed Court Employees, Terminated to Save Money
Genesis of CJA's
Activism on NY's Judicial Compensation Issue
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