New York Is Ousting Older Judges to Save Money. They’re Fighting Back.
Dozens of judges are being forced to retire to close a pandemic budget gap. They have sued New York State, charging age discrimination.
Justice Bernice D. Siegal, 70, says she was outraged when she learned the state wanted her to retire.Credit.Benjamin Norman for The New York Times
Dec. 21, 2020
It was last March 11: the day President Trump shut down travel from Europe and Tom Hanks announced he had coronavirus. The mayor of New York was warning people about the risks of leaving home.
Bernice D. Siegal, a justice in the State Supreme Court in Queens, was not deterred. She climbed into her Ford Fusion and made the trip into Manhattan for a doctor’s appointment.