Welcome to the thicket of ways in which legal professionals can overextend themselves (and how the Australians have come up with one way to curtail it).
Justice Suspended: An Update in the Case of Judge Pauline Newman ricochet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ricochet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On February 12, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, who has been at the center of a controversial inquiry into her current fitness to continue serving as a federal appellate judge.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused to order reinstatement to new case assignments for a 96-year-old federal appeals judge who claims that the laws governing judicial disability are unconstitutional.
Trump's appeals immunity ruling citing such unassailable precedent as. a dissent in another Trump case that does not itself cite relevant caselaw. Stellar work all around. [Bloomberg Law News] Latham shuts its Hong Kong lawyers off from the rest of the firm's data. [Financial Times] Squishmallows launches suit against Build-a-Bear. [BBC] More firms trumpet robust 2023 profits implicitly dunking on the firms still laying people off. [American Lawyer] Harvard not liable for morgue manager selling spare parts. [Law360] Ohio law attempting to ban children from using social media without parental permission blocked based on pesky "basic Constitutional rights" thing. [Reuters] Pauline Newman loses another challenge as DC judge jettisons suit while shrugging at the idea that appellate judges have an unenumerated "pocket impeachment" power to terminate a lifetime appointment on their own. [ABA Journal]