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 “U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman asked a Washington, D.C., federal court on Friday to reject a bid from her fellow judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to end her lawsuit over their decision to suspend her from the bench”; and
- a similar article about how Judge Newman “argued in her opposition brief that the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act violates the constitution.”
Blake Brittain authored an article for Reuters discussing how “U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman asked a Washington, D.C., federal court on Friday to reject a bid from her fellow judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to end her lawsuit over their decision to suspend her from the bench.” Brittain notes how Judge Newman “told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that . . . her colleagues were engaging in an ongoing ‘pattern of harassment’ against her.”
Ryan Davis wrote a similar article for Law360 about how Judge Newman “argued in her opposition brief that the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act violates the constitution.” According to Davis, Judge Newman “argu[ed] that the law is ‘irredeemably vague’ about what constitutes a disability that can give rise to a judge’s suspension and that the law allows judges to use ‘entirely standardless criteria’ to conduct investigations and ‘impose unconstitutional sanctions.'”