Certiorari denied.
JUSTICE BREYER, with whom JUSTICE SCALIA and JUSTICE KENNEDY join, dissenting.
The Ethics Reform Act of 1989 provides for automatic annual adjustments in judicial pay to take account of inflation. In each of fiscal years 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1999, Congress included language in appropriations legislation that prevented the Ethics Act adjustments from taking effect for that fiscal year. The petitioners in this case, federal judges sitting...
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