Here is a report on recent news and commentary related to the Federal Circuit and its cases. Today’s report highlights:
- an article discussing attorneys for Judge Newman “urg[ing] a lower court in Washington . . . to allow her lawsuit to proceed against colleagues who suspended her from the bench last year”;
- a similar article highlighting how Judge Cooper “promised an order ‘sooner rather than later’ on what’s next for Judge Newman and the Federal Circuit”; and
- an article about a Federal Circuit ruling “that a patent suit against Honeywell International Inc. must play out on the conglomerate’s home turf of North Carolina.”
Blake Brittain wrote an article for Reuters discussing attorneys for Judge Newman “urg[ing] a lower court in Washington . . . to allow her lawsuit to proceed against colleagues who suspended her from the bench last year.” According to Brittain, the “unprecedented lawsuit from 96-year-old Judge Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit accuses the circuit court’s judicial council of exceeding its constitutional authority.”
Ali Sullivan authored a similar article for Law360 highlighting how Judge Cooper “promised an order ‘sooner rather than later’ on what’s next for Judge Newman and the Federal Circuit.” Sullivan notes that, “[a]s a reflection of the tensions on the court, Judge Cooper admonished the circuit’s attorney at the outset of the hearing Thursday to ‘turn the temperature down a little bit and focus on the legal issues.'”
Michael Shapiro wrote an article for Bloomberg Law about a Federal Circuit ruling “that a patent suit against Honeywell International Inc. must play out on the conglomerate’s home turf of North Carolina.” Shapiro notes how the court “revers[ed] a Texas judge who had refused to transfer the case.”