Bloomberg News reports that Federal judges “got five-figure raises” on January 1 “because of a court ruling that erased pay freezes going back to 1995.” Judicial salaries rose by 14 percent “as years of catch-up cost-of-living adjustments were added to their paychecks. ‘The law had promised them they would get these adjustments in the years all federal employees got them and Congress blocked them,’ Washington lawyer Christopher Landau said in a telephone interview.” Landau “represented six judges who filed a 2009 lawsuit challenging the denial of pay raises.”
From the American Association for Justice news release.
