Pauline Newman’s saga of keeping her enemies closer continues. Despite proving her capability with numerous mental evaluations, Supreme Court affirmations and highly visible lectures on the intricacies of IP, the US. Court of Appeals has maintained that she is unable to perform her duties because of her heart attack failure to submit to their cherry picked means of evaluation. Newman has since made repeated attempts to appeal, her most recent one was heard by a U.S. appeals court. Reuters has coverage:
A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied a bid by U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman to reinstate a lawsuit challenging her suspension from serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where she had heard cases since 1984.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Newman’s argument that the law governing her suspension was unconstitutional.
Responding to the ruling, Newman appears more adamant than ever about her cause:
“The issues of judicial independence that are at stake here seem to loom larger and larger with each decision adverse to me,” Newman said. “I just don’t see how, in good conscience, I can walk away from this, no matter how fed up I am with everything that’s going on.”
A small silver of hope is that panel — in about the most “this is bullshit but what can you do shrug emoji” way that a judicial panel could acknowledge that their hands are forced in an opinion, had this to say:
[E]ven though Newman had raised “important and serious” constitutional questions about her treatment, it could only consider her challenge to the law governing judicial suspensions, and that “any recourse for Judge Newman must come from a judicial council or from the Judicial Conference.”
Newman has no plans to stop. Let’s hope that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit changes their opinion before she rings in her centennial; I doubt she’s going anywhere soon.
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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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Pauline Newman’s saga of keeping her enemies closer continues. Despite proving her capability with numerous mental evaluations, Supreme Court affirmations and highly visible lectures on the intricacies of IP, the US. Court of Appeals has maintained that she is unable to perform her duties because of her heart attack failure to submit to their cherry picked means of evaluation. Newman has since made repeated attempts to appeal, her most recent one was heard by a U.S. appeals court. Reuters has coverage:
A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied a bid by U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman to reinstate a lawsuit challenging her suspension from serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where she had heard cases since 1984.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Newman’s argument that the law governing her suspension was unconstitutional.
Responding to the ruling, Newman appears more adamant than ever about her cause:
“The issues of judicial independence that are at stake here seem to loom larger and larger with each decision adverse to me,” Newman said. “I just don’t see how, in good conscience, I can walk away from this, no matter how fed up I am with everything that’s going on.”
A small silver of hope is that panel — in about the most “this is bullshit but what can you do shrug emoji” way that a judicial panel could acknowledge that their hands are forced in an opinion, had this to say:
[E]ven though Newman had raised “important and serious” constitutional questions about her treatment, it could only consider her challenge to the law governing judicial suspensions, and that “any recourse for Judge Newman must come from a judicial council or from the Judicial Conference.”
Newman has no plans to stop. Let’s hope that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit changes their opinion before she rings in her centennial; I doubt she’s going anywhere soon.
98-YearOld US Appeals Judge Loses Bid To Revive Lawsuit Over Her Suspension
Earlier: U.S. Appeals Court Renews Judge Pauline Newman’s Suspension
Pauline Newman Speaks: ATL Interviews The Judge Who’s Fighting To Do Her Job
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
