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When a Justice retires, they have the opportunity to assume duties similar to that of senior status assumed by District and Circuit Judges.

This means that the Justice keeps his or her title, and may serve by assignment on panels of the U. S. Courts of Appeals.

Retired Justices may choose to keep a chamber in the Supreme Court building, as well as to employ law clerks.

The names of retired Associate Justices continue to appear alongside the other active members on the Bound Volumes of Supreme Court decisions.

However, retired Associate Justices ( unlike judges on senior status ) take no part in the consideration or decision of any cases before the Supreme Court, although they may be appointed by the Chief Justice to sit on lower courts.