An Eleventh Circuit order issued today granted Judge Newman’s request to make prior orders in her judicial misconduct case public. Notably, today’s order states that on August 19, 2026, Chief Judge Roberts transferred her case from the Federal Circuit to the Eleventh Circuit. Among the many interesting aspects of this decision by Chief Judge Roberts, it comes on the heals of the Supreme Court’s decision on June 15, 2026, to deny review of a D.C. Circuit judgment rejecting Judge Newman’s challenge to the Federal Circuit’s handling of her case. For more information on today’s development, here are reports by several news agencies. We will report more later this week as more information becomes available.
Reuters reports that “US Chief Justice John Roberts has transferred a dispute between the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and its longest-serving judge Pauline Newman to a new federal appeals court, according to an order published on Tuesday.” Reuters has a copy of today’s Eleventh Circuit’s order.
Law360 similar highlights that “[t]he U.S. Supreme Court has transferred the Federal Circuit’s investigation of suspended U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman to the Eleventh Circuit, the latter court said Tuesday.”
Bloomberg Law similarly explains that “[t]ong-time Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman will debate the merits of a judicial disability probe into her mental acuity before the Eleventh Circuit, the latter court said Tuesday.”