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California Courts of Appeal

Mar. 27, 2017

State asks 2nd District to repeal judge back pay ruling

In a bid to undo a state court's landmark ruling on judge back pay, an attorney for the state told the 2nd District Court of Appeal Friday that a trial court judge wrongly interpreted the law to grant millions in judicial salaries.

By Justin Kloczko
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES — In a bid to undo a landmark ruling on judges' back pay, an attorney for the state told the 2nd District Court of Appeal on Friday that a trial judge wrongly interpreted the law to grant millions of dollars in overdue salary to California's 3,400 current and retired judicial officers.

During the hearing of about an hour, the three-justice panel directed most of its questio...

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