Larabee v. Governor of New York

OPINION OF THE COURT

In three consolidated appeals in Matter of Maron v Silver (14 NY3d 230 [2010]), we addressed the legislature’s and the *472Governor’s practice of directly and explicitly tying consideration of judicial compensation to unrelated policy initiatives during the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 (see id. at 245, 257). We concluded that this practice, called linkage, violated the separation of powers doctrine by undermining judicial independence, and we issued a declaration to that effect (see id. at 260-261). In response to our decision in Matter of Marón, the legislature passed, and the…