WASHINGTON — The federal lawsuit brought by under-fire 96-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman to block a probe into her fitness to serve should be thrown out, the judges investigating
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After almost 40 years on the bench, Judge Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has sued her chief, two judge colleagues and the Federal Circuit Judicial Council, following a court committee interview and a medical records request, which she denied, and a suggestion that she should be suspended from work for one year.
Judge Pauline Newman’s counsel and the Federal Circuit committee clashed on issues such as her physician, appropriate sanctions and what her team would disclose to the other judges