Court Opinion

ID: 9505354
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 20:04:04.80715+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:24.562549
License: Public Domain

SHEPARD, Chief Justice,
concurring.
Connected as it is to the vetoed pay bill, this appeal has been a painful experience. Judges and prosecutors and their families have now gone seven years without so much as a cost-of-living adjustment, even as social workers, teachers, university professors, prison guards, and state employees generally have received several such adjustments. This differential treatment has been ruinous to the state's judiciary. Passing through the cloud of this calamity to decide this appeal on the basis of our best judgment about the law, however, is the job we have chosen and been chosen to do. While I place more value on the available legislative history than Justice Bochm does, in the end, I have decided he is right about what is the correct decision in this case.