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WEISSMAN v. EVANS

56 N.Y.2d 458 (1982)

Morton Weissman et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Present and Future Judges of Suffolk County District Court, Respondents-Appellants, v. Herbert Evans, as Administrative Judge and Chief Administrator of the Courts of the State of New York, and as Representative of the Administrative Board of the Judicial Conference of the State of New York, et al., Appellants-Respondents, et al., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Jeffrey I. Slonim and Shirley Adelson Siegel of counsel), for appellants-respondents.

Frederic Block for respondents-appellants.

Murray A. Gordon and Richard Imbrogno for Willard W. Cass, Jr., and others, amici curiae.

Judges JASEN, JONES, WACHTLER and MEYER concur with Judge FUCHSBERG; Judge GABRIELLI concurs in result only; Chief Judge COOKE taking no part.

FUCHSBERG, J.

The plaintiffs, District Court Judges of the Suffolk District Court, seek among other things, a judgment declaring the perpetuation of an unfavorable salary disparity between the plaintiffs and the Judges of the only other District Court in the State, that of adjoining Nassau County, violative of the equal protection provisions of our Federal and State...

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