Legal Opinion
Association of Surrogates v. New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 31, 1991No. 1167, Docket 90-9036PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
Two of the chronic problems of modern government — a budget crunch and an overworked court system — intersect to create this contract-clause challenge to New York State’s “lag payroll” law. The question before us is whether, in seeking to solve both problems through this lag-payroll scheme, the state may constitutionally finance an expansion of its court system by deferring the wages of certain court employees contrary to their collective bargaining agreements. Our answer is “no”, because the lag-payroll legislation, as interpreted by the New York Court of…
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