The Special Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) that has been investigating Judge Pauline Newman’s alleged misconduct for the past year today renewed its recommendation to sanction Newman in the form of a suspension from hearing cases at the panel or en banc level for an additional year. The Committee consists of CAFC Chief Judge Moore and Judges Prost and Taranto. In August 2023, the panel issued a 319-page report recommending the sanction of suspension and characterizing Newman’s refusal to submit to medical testing by the Committee’s selected doctors as “serious misconduct” that has “[t]hwarted the process Congress created for determining whether a life-tenured judge suffers from a disability.”

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