Feuding Journey to Continue Tour with Ex-Judge Playing Referee

The iconic rock group Journey, which has been feuding in court for weeks, will tour for now under the eye of a retired judge assigned to break internal deadlocks over the band’s spending.

A Delaware Chancery Court judge appointed one of his former colleagues as a custodian for the entity that manages the band’s touring-related assets. Although the ex-judge, Joseph R. Slights III, won’t technically be a third corporate director, he’ll have all the powers of a board chairman if guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain are at an impasse, according to the order issued Wednesday.

The ruling by ...