Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article including an interview with Judge Newman as “April 14 marks the one-year anniversary of when the Federal Circuit confirmed an unprecedented investigation into whether U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman was mentally and physically competent to remain on its bench”; and
- an article discussing how “[t]he full Federal Circuit declined a request by one of the court’s judges to reexamine how an employee’s prior salary history factors into the analysis of sex-based unequal pay claims.”
Dani Kass wrote an article for Law360 including an interview with Judge Newman as “April 14 marks the one-year anniversary of when the Federal Circuit confirmed an unprecedented investigation into whether U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman was mentally and physically competent to remain on its bench.” Kass notes that the interview discusses Judge Newman’s “experience over the past year, her relationship with the other circuit judges and how she thinks an investigation should have been handled.”
Patrick Dorrian authored an article for Bloomberg Law discussing how “[t]he full Federal Circuit declined a request by one of the court’s judges to reexamine how an employee’s prior salary history factors into the analysis of sex-based unequal pay claims.” As explained by Dorrian, “[f]our of the 11 judges . . . dissented from the decision not to take another look at a Veterans Affairs clinical pharmacist’s Equal Pay Act suit alleging she was paid less than a male colleague for doing substantially the same work.”