Regency Pheasant Run Ltd. v. Karem

OPINION DENYING THE ISSUANCE OF A WRIT OF PROHIBITION

STEPHENS, Chief Justice.

The issue presented in this case is whether a practicing attorney who is a retired judge can be temporarily appointed to serve as a special judge, i.e., serve as a judge pro tem-pore; or, stated another way, can a judge pro tempore practice law?

The action at the trial court level involved a sale of three apartment communities in Lexington from Jack R. Medford, Barbara Medford and Degaris Townhouses, a limited partnership in which Jack R. Medford and Barbara Medford were the sole partners, (hereinafter Medford), to…