Newman Urges Judge Not to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging Suspension

Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman urged a federal judge to keep alive her lawsuit challenging a law through which her colleagues suspended her from hearing cases.

The Judicial Conduct and Disability Act contains “irredeemably vague provisions” that unconstitutionally permitted her colleagues to “divest an Article III judge of her office,” Newman, who turns 97 in June, said in a Friday filing.

Newman is the longest serving member of the court, which has exclusive jurisdiction over patent appeals, and is the nation’s oldest active federal judge. Her colleagues on the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in September ...