Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article discussing how the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Committee on Conduct and Disability’s “rare decision affirming the suspension of a federal appeals court judge unleashed a flurry of calls to change the statutory framework for evaluating judges for potential disability and misconduct”;
- an article noting how Judge Newman “complained . . . that she had been taken off an email list that goes to all judges”; and
- another article highlighting how “[p]arts of Judge Pauline Newman’s lawsuit challenging her suspension from hearing cases on the Federal Circuit will move forward, though its prospects are dim after a federal judge denied her preliminary relief.”
Michael Shapiro wrote an article for Bloomberg Law discussing how the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Committee on Conduct and Disability’s “rare decision affirming the suspension of a federal appeals court judge unleashed a flurry of calls to change the statutory framework for evaluating judges for potential disability and misconduct.” Shapiro discussed how, among legal scholars, the”specific criticisms and proposals for change vary widely.”
Craig Clough authored an article for Law360 noting how Judge Newman “complained . . . that she had been taken off an email list that goes to all judges.” According the Clough, “Judge Newman’s attorneys wrote in a reply brief filed in her lawsuit against her fellow Federal Circuit judges that she was recently removed from an ‘All Judges’ listserv, and that the Federal Circuit’s Judicial Council denied her request to extend the term of service of one of her law clerks.”
Michael Shapiro wrote another article for Bloomberg Law highlighting how “[p]arts of Judge Pauline Newman’s lawsuit challenging her suspension from hearing cases on the Federal Circuit will move forward, though its prospects are dim after a federal judge denied her preliminary relief.” Shapiro discusses how, after “knock[ing] out all or part of the eight of the 11 claims from her lawsuit,” Federal District Judge Christopher R. Cooper “ruled that Newman isn’t entitled to a preliminary injunction to immediately reinstate her because she’d failed to show a ‘likelihood of prevailing’ on them, even as her case progresses.”