Beds announces his retirement (again)

Beds' latest column is Trying to Retire, Again -- "I’ll be 77 in November, and while that is not exactly 'a good round number,' it seems like a reasonable finish line for a legal career," said Justice William W. Bedsworth, in his latest column announcing his retirement.

• It’s gotten to where everyone laughs when I mention retirement. I am—as you may have noticed—a man who likes to make people laugh, so that’s not entirely a bad thing. But the specter of an unattended retirement party because everybody thinks it’s a joke has made me more wary of crying “wolf,” so I think this time it may actually happen.
• But you’re probably wondering, “What’s next? Private judging, sitting by assignment, margaritas by the pool? How do you follow 27 years on the Court of Appeal?”