Rosalsky v. State of New York

The question to be determined is the validity under the State Constitution of chapter 772 of the Laws of 1928.

By that act, the Legislature attempted to clothe the Court of Claims with jurisdiction to audit and determine “ the claim of any judge or judges of the Court of General Sessions of the county of New York for counsel fees and expenses incurred by him or them in successfully defending any action or proceeding heretofore brought against him or them by reason of any act, decision or judgment arising out of his or their judicial duties since nineteen hundred and twenty.” Upon a finding…