DC Circuit Rejects Newman’s En Banc Petition in Suspension Case

The DC Circuit rejected Judge Pauline Newman’s request to rehear her appeal challenging her suspension from hearing new cases at the Federal Circuit.

The appeals court denied Newman’s en banc petition in a one-page per curiam order issued Monday.

Newman, 98 and the nation’s oldest active federal judge, was suspended from hearing new cases at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 2023 as the court launched an investigation into her mental fitness. She filed a federal lawsuit in May 2023 challenging her suspension, but the district court dismissed the case in July 2024.

She promptly appealed ...