Judge Newman Fully Capable to Serve, New Physician Report Says

Lawyers for 97-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman on Tuesday released a 44-page report from a neurosurgeon who concluded the suspended jurist is “fully capable to engage in the work of a judge.”

The report, posted Tuesday afternoon to the website of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents Newman, is authored by Aaron Filler, a California-based physician who is also an inventor and lawyer licensed to practice before the influential US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. It responds to separate rounds of suspensions handed down by the court’s Judicial Council after Newman refused to undergo a ...