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Feb. 12, 2024

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U.S. court mostly rejects 96-year-old judge’s lawsuit over suspension

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A Washington, D.C., federal court on Monday dismissed most of a lawsuit brought by Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, 96, over her suspension from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Read more.

Newman, the country’s oldest federal judge, failed to convince the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that the suspension should be reversed or that an investigation into her competency should be taken out of her own court’s hands. But the court ruled that Newman can continue to press allegations that the law governing the suspension is unlawfully vague and other constitutional claims in her lawsuit.

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