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Reader email re: "Judicial Pay Raise."

Reader email re: "Judicial Pay Raise." The following email arrived this morning:

I simply wanted to write and thank you for your well reasoned and articulate response to Scott Baker's LA Times piece. I personally work as a ballet teacher, a field that has never been well compensated, and I find that the work is a great deal of the reward.

My father, who is a federal magistrate judge, is one of the hardest working people I know, and will continue to do the job he loves for as long as he is able. Having said that, I have watched my parents' standard of living stagnate in proportion to their salary. It strikes me that the judiciary is more than deserving of this raise, and has been waiting far too long for it.

The email is in response to this week's installment of my "On Appeal" column for law.com, headlined "Performance Pay for Federal Appellate Judges?"

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 23, 2008 (boomark / email).