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judicial age cap
Coverage of judicial age cap in the Nexus archive.
- NY’s highest court upholds age cap for judges while cautioning against age discrimination
New York’s highest court upheld the mandatory judicial retirement age of 70, rejecting claims that the state’s Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) rendered it unconstitutional. The court emphasized that constitutional provisions cannot invalidate each other without explicit intent, while cautioning that age discrimination claims under the ERA may be enforceable in other contexts.