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Labor/Employment,
Judges and Judiciary,
Civil Litigation

May 31, 2022

Challenge to limits on work of retired judges gets trial date

The seven remaining plaintiffs — an eighth died after the litigation began — claim recent participation limits discriminate on the basis of age.

A group of retired judges will get their day in court.

After more than three years of legal wrangling, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco set a 2023 trial date in a case challenging changes to the Judicial Council’s Temporary Assigned Judges Program. The seven remaining plaintiffs — an eighth died after the litigation began — claim recent participation limits discriminate on the basis of age. Mahler v. Judicial Council of California, 2...

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