Two key amicus briefs were filed on Thursday, December 12, backing Judge Pauline Newman’s appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from the dismissal of her case against the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). First, several law professors and a former International Trade Commission (ITC) commissioner joined the Manhattan Institute in submitting an amicus brief urging reversal of the district court’s judgment and a declaration that the CAFC’s proceeding against Judge Newman is unconstitutional for its failure to transfer the complaint to a different circuit initially. And six retired federal judges filed a separate brief urging the court to intervene because the Federal Circuit’s actions “directly challenge the independence of all federal judges.”

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