Baker County v. Wolff

Plaintiffs Baker County and its commissioners and Budget Committee appeal from a deelaratory judgment which upheld an order of the circuit judge for the Eighth Judicial District of Oregon which set $14,000 as the 1972-73 yearly salary of the judge’s duly appointed court reporter. The plaintiffs had set the salary at $12,180 plus fringe benefits (health insurance, retirement fund and social security) of $1,117.80. The judge’s order was made ex parte after he had requested his reporter’s salary be included in the budget at $15,000. He did not supply supporting data or information to the Budget…