Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman on Tuesday said she plans to press forward in her legal battle to regain her full judicial duties, even after the 97-year-old jurist’s federal lawsuit against her colleagues was dismissed earlier in the day.
Newman was benched in September 2023 in a unanimous vote of her colleagues on the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit following a series of reports from court staff that led them to question her memory and temperament. Newman refused to submit to court-ordered medical testing, which the court’s Judicial Council said frustrated their attempts to determine if she ...