Thomas R. Cornish v. United States

Judicial pay; Judicial COLAs; Bankruptcy judges; 28 U.S.C. § 153(a); Beer v. United States.

OPINION

BRUGGINK, Judge

This is an action for back pay brought by an active duty bankruptcy judge. Judge Cornish’s compensation is set by statute to “equal 92 percent of the salary of a judge of the district court of the United States as determined pursuant to [28 U.S.C.] section 135.” 28 U.S.C. § 153(a) (2006). Plaintiff contends that he has not received his full statutory compensation because the compen sation of district court judges has been improperly reduced due to Congress’s failure to pay district…