Newman Hearing Transcript Highlights Concern Over Cardiac Health

The cardiac health of 96-year-old Judge Pauline Newman and a neurologist’s examination she submitted to a Federal Circuit judicial committee were central to a July hearing on her compliance with the probe into her fitness, according to a redacted transcript released Wednesday over Newman’s objections.

The three-judge panel unsealed the hearing’s transcript despite Newman’s attorney’s objection to inserting the descriptor “cardiac condition” in several instances to replace a more specific redacted phrase about the judge’s health, according to a Wednesday order, which said that descriptor was the “sole objection” to the release.

“Shrouding the oral argument in secrecy at this ...