Beds to retire

The MetNews reports Court of Appeal Justice Bedsworth to Retire -- Jurist Is Widely Lauded for Lucid, Pithy, Sometimes Humorous, Prose

• Court of Appeal Justice William W. Bedsworth—widely viewed as a giant in the judiciary based on opinions that are consistently marked by clarity and often by wit—will be retiring effective Oct. 21 from his post on the Fourth District’s Div. Three in Orange County.
• Bedsworth, who has taught law classes at the University of California, Irvine (“UCI”), Western State University, and Chapman University, explained in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom his reasons for leaving the bench, saying: “I always told my law students at UCI that ‘there is no greater engine for the accomplishment of good on the planet than the American legal system’ in which I have been allowed to serve. I also told them they were going into this profession with the goal not of becoming rich and famous, but of becoming proud and happy. I have reached that point. Now it’s time to find out who I am without a robe, something I have not investigated for 37 years.”