Judge Pauline Newman, 97, who was suspended from the Federal Circuit last year after being accused of unfitness due to cognitive and physical impairment related to her age lost a lawsuit on Tuesday she had filed in a bid to return to work. In challenging her suspension, Newman argued that the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act, a 1980 law that sets out the process for removing judges, ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution. Read more.
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Almost as soon as the DOJ disclosed a proposed criminal plea agreement on Sunday with Boeing to resolve the government’s investigation of two 737 MAX fatal crashes, families for some crash victims announced opposition to the deal. The families previously tried and failed to derail Boeing’s 2021 deferred prosecution deal with the government. But Alison Frankel explains why the families’ opposition may carry more weight this time around.
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