2013-05-10sfgate.com

``The state has turned to senior judges to help with the workload, but a recent change to state retirement laws means that a judge must wait a year after retirement before returning to the courthouse. That led a group of judges and administrators to petition the Supreme Court in April to take the emergency step of authorizing the use of non-judges.

The Florida Legislature recently passed a bill (SB 1852) that authorized spending nearly $31 million to help pay for ways to reduce the backlog of foreclosure cases.''



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