McGrath v. Lippman

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Malone, Jr., J.), entered September *7417, 1999 in Albany County, which, inter alia, partially granted plaintiffs motion for summary judgment.

Plaintiff, the County Judge of Rensselaer County since 1994, instituted this action in July 1997 claiming a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Federal and State Constitutions due to a disparity in pay for County Judges in his County with that in the contiguous County of Albany. Contending that “[t]he jurisdiction, practice and procedure” between these two courts are substantially equivalent, petitioner…