WEISSMAN v. BELLACOSA


129 A.D.2d 189 (1987)

Morton Weissman et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Appellants, v. Joseph W. Bellacosa, as Chief Administrator of the Courts, and as Representative of The Administrative Board of the Judicial Conference of the State of New York, et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

June 29, 1987


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Block & Hamburger (Frederick Block of counsel), for appellants.

Michael Colodner (John Eiseman and Barbara Zahler-Gringer of counsel), for Joseph W. Bellacosa, respondent.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Lawrence S. Kahn and Abigail I. Petersen of counsel), for Edward Regan and another, respondents.

MANGANO, J. P., WEINSTEIN and RUBIN, JJ., concur.


KOOPER, J.

The question to be resolved on appeal is whether statutorily prescribed disparities in the salaries of certain County Court Judges serving in adjoining localities comport with both Federal and State constitutional mandates guaranteeing citizens equal protection of the laws (US Const 14th Amend; NY Const, art I, § 11). For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the disparate financial treatment...

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