CAFC Judges Recommend Extending Sanction on Judge Newman for Another Year
Judges Kimberly Moore, Sharon Prost and Richard Taranto on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recommended that the court's Judicial Council sanction Judge Pauline Newman from hearing new cases for another year. The three judges previously sanctioned…
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Newman, 97, for one year for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into her fitness to continue serving on the bench (see 2309200024). With the end of the one-year ban looming, the judges asked Newman to show cause why she shouldn't be subject to a renewed sanction. Moore, Prost and Taranto said that Newman hasn't shown any evidence to undermine the vast record "raising serious concerns about Judge Newman’s cognitive state," and she hasn't cooperated with the investigation.