Nation’s Oldest Judge Claps Back as She Seeks Reinstatement (1)

Judge Pauline Newman argued that her lawsuit to reverse a decision by her colleagues on the Federal Circuit barring her from new cases should be allowed to continue, and that her suspension should be lifted while the case proceeds.

The filing, made late Wednesday, argued in at-times fiery prose that the US District Court for the District of Columbia should grant an injunction and “restore her to the bench immediately.”

The 96-year-old Newman sued several of her fellow judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the court’s Judicial Council in May after she was ...