{"id":4667,"date":"2011-12-17T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2011-12-19T23:07:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T05:07:45","slug":"judicial-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Circuit heard <a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2010-5012.mp3\">oral argument<\/a> in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beer v. U.S.<\/span> last week.\u00a0 The appeal relates to a\u00a0lawsuit brought by\u00a0a group of \u00a0federal judges concerning\u00a0judicial pay.\u00a0 It was GVR&#8217;d by the Supreme Court last term.\u00a0 For more background, the amicus brief\u00a0\u00a0filed jointly by the AIPLA, IPO, and the\u00a0Federal Bar Association (in the Supreme\u00a0Court case\u00a0last term) is available [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/beer_cert_amicus_rief1.pdf\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The US Courts&#8217; home page has a good summary of how judicial pay has been affected by the unintended consequences of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989.\u00a0 Here is the link for that page: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/JudgesAndJudgeships\/JudicialCompensation\/JudicialPayIncreaseFact.aspx\">Link<\/a>].\u00a0 A couple of interesting graphs from that page are shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"highslide-image\" style=\"z-index: 3; position: relative; display: block; max-width: none; visibility: visible; cursor: url(\/Scripts\/High_Slide_Javascript\/highslide\/graphics\/zoomout.cur), pointer;\" title=\"Click to close image, click and drag to move. Use arrow keys for next and previous.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/uscourts\/JudgesJudgeships\/images\/salaryChart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"highslide-image\" style=\"z-index: 3; position: relative; display: block; max-width: none; visibility: visible; cursor: url(\/Scripts\/High_Slide_Javascript\/highslide\/graphics\/zoomout.cur), pointer;\" title=\"Click to close image, click and drag to move. Use arrow keys for next and previous.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uscourts.gov\/uscourts\/JudgesJudgeships\/images\/departureChart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Circuit heard oral argument in Beer v. U.S. last week.\u00a0 The appeal relates to a\u00a0lawsuit brought by\u00a0a group of \u00a0federal judges concerning\u00a0judicial pay.\u00a0 It was GVR&#8217;d by the Supreme Court last term.\u00a0 For more background, the amicus brief\u00a0\u00a0filed jointly by the AIPLA, IPO, and the\u00a0Federal Bar Association (in the Supreme\u00a0Court case\u00a0last term) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}