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AFFRONTI v. CROSSON

95 N.Y.2d 713 (2001)

746 N.E.2d 1049

723 N.Y.S.2d 757

FRANCIS A. AFFRONTI et al., Appellants-Respondents, v. MATTHEW T. CROSSON, as 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., Respondents-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 22, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Pearl & Smith, Rochester (Robert J. Pearl of counsel), for appellants-respondents.

John Sullivan, New York City, Michael Colodner, John Eiseman and Shawn Kerby for Matthew T. Crosson, respondent-appellant.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Albany (Frank K. Walsh, Preeta D. Bansal, Daniel Smirlock and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for Edward V. Regan and another, respondents-appellants.

Judges SMITH, LEVINE, CIPARICK, ROSENBLATT and GRAFFEO concur in Per Curiam opinion; Chief Judge KAYE and Judge WESLEY taking no part.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

Plaintiffs, current and former Monroe County Family Court Judges, challenge the constitutionality of Judiciary Law §§ 221-d and 221-e on the ground that the statutorily enacted pay disparities between the Family Court Judges of Monroe County and Judges serving in the Family Courts of Sullivan, Putnam and Suffolk Counties violate their rights to equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the Federal Constitution...

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