Santa Rosa Press Democrat

May 14, 2019

The state’s Assigned Judges Program, which costs the state about $27 million annually, allows trial courts to tap retired judges to fill in for judicial absences, such as when judges take leave for vacation and illness, in order to prevent delays in civil, criminal, family and other proceedings in California’s 58 trial courts.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9594629-181/lawsuit-by-retired-california-judges