A state justice has tossed out a lawsuit challenging Los Angeles County’s authority to pay local judges an extra $46,000 a year in employment benefits.

Justice James Richman of the First District Court of Appeal, sitting by assignment in Los Angeles County Superior Court, held that the Legislature acted appropriately when it authorized the local judicial benefits in a bill passed during an emergency budget session in February.

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