California Court of Appeal January 31, 1989, C000659 (Bach v. McNelis)

Opinion

SPARKS, J.

The former version of article VI, section 17 of the California Constitution barred a judge of a court of record from practicing law and rendered the judge ineligible for any public employment other than a judicial one. Section 6 of that article empowers the Chief Justice to assign any judge to another court of higher jurisdiction without the consent of the assigned judge.