Gilligan v. Procaccino

In each of these three proceedings, the petitioners are nonlawyer “ Law Secretaries to Justices” of the Supreme Court in either the First or Second Departments. Bach claims that increased salaries were unlawfully withheld from him and they brought the proceedings below in an effort to recover the *166amount of the salary increase claimed to have been unlawfully withheld. Their petitions should be granted.

In 1961, the Legislature made appropriations for increased salaries for “ certain officers and employees of the judiciary ”. (L. 1961, ch. 492.) An additional increase was similarly provided for…