A retired California judge was banned from presiding over cases for issuing an order for a lawyer to be paid in gift cards to a women's clothing store. Brett Klein, a Los Angeles County judge who retired in November, was censured Tuesday by the Commission on Judicial Performance and banned from presiding over court cases after commission members accused him of abusing his authority and "grandstanding to the press" while presiding over the final hearing of a class-action lawsuit last year, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday ... (Continue story)
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