{"id":272229,"date":"2026-06-19T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272229\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:33:09","slug":"new-york-judges-must-retire-at-76-says-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272229\/","title":{"rendered":"New York judges must retire at 76, says high court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York judges <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/07\/us-news\/aging-ny-judges-challenge-ancient-state-law-that-would-force-them-to-retire-at-76\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be booted from the bench at age 76<\/a>, the state\u2019s highest court ruled Thursday rejected the notion that it constitutes age discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeals shot down a bid by three elderly jurists challenging an 1869 law that sets the mandatory retirement age at 76, saying it violates their rights under the state\u2019s Equal Rights Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Judges are forced to \u201cretire\u201d at age 70 but can stay on the bench for another six years by getting recertified every two years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39721807\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131444828.jpg\" alt=\"Court of Appeals, State of New York building with a clock tower in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-39721807\"  \/>A constitutional provision setting a retirement age for New York judges will remain in place, the court of appeals decided in a decision released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s constitution originally required judges to retire at 60 when it was enacted in 1777.<\/p>\n<p>The septuagenarian judges who fought against the age cap argued they are \u201carbitrarily\u201d forced to stop working based solely on their age.<\/p>\n<p>One of the plaintiffs, retired state appellate judge David Saxe, argued in part that there aren\u2019t age restrictions on governors or members of the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>He blasted Thursday\u2019s decision as \u201can unnecessarily narrow and unimaginative decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief Judge Rowan Wilson and Judge Madeline Singas \u201ctook no part\u201d in the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York judges will be booted from the bench at age 76, the state\u2019s highest court ruled Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4241,4234,57,9,11112,11,10,1577,58],"class_list":["post-272229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany","tag-judges","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-court-of-appeals","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-retirement","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}