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Pauline
Newman’s
saga
of
keeping
her
enemies
closer
continues.
Despite
proving
her
capability
with
numerous
mental
evaluations,
Supreme
Court
affirmations
and
highly
visible
lectures
on
the
intricacies
of
IP,
the
US.
Court
of
Appeals
has
maintained
that
she
is
unable
to
perform
her
duties
because
of
her
heart
attack
failure
to
submit
to
their
cherry
picked
means
of
evaluation.
Newman
has
since
made
repeated
attempts
to
appeal,
her
most
recent
one
was
heard
by
a
U.S.
appeals
court.
Reuters
has
coverage:
A
U.S.
appeals
court
on
Friday
denied
a
bid
by
U.S.
Circuit
Judge
Pauline
Newman
to
reinstate
a
lawsuit
challenging
her
suspension
from
serving
on
the
U.S.
Court
of
Appeals
for
the
Federal
Circuit,
where
she
had
heard
cases
since
1984.A
three-judge
panel
of
the
U.S.
Court
of
Appeals
for
the
District
of
Columbia
Circuit
rejected
Newman’s
argument
that
the
law
governing
her
suspension
was
unconstitutional.
Responding
to
the
ruling,
Newman
appears
more
adamant
than
ever
about
her
cause:
“The
issues
of
judicial
independence
that
are
at
stake
here
seem
to
loom
larger
and
larger
with
each
decision
adverse
to
me,”
Newman
said.
“I
just
don’t
see
how,
in
good
conscience,
I
can
walk
away
from
this,
no
matter
how
fed
up
I
am
with
everything
that’s
going
on.”
A
small
silver
of
hope
is
that
panel
—
in
about
the
most
“this
is
bullshit
but
what
can
you
do
shrug
emoji”
way
that
a
judicial
panel
could
acknowledge
that
their
hands
are
forced
in
an
opinion,
had
this
to
say:
[E]ven
though
Newman
had
raised
“important
and
serious”
constitutional
questions
about
her
treatment,
it
could
only
consider
her
challenge
to
the
law
governing
judicial
suspensions,
and
that
“any
recourse
for
Judge
Newman
must
come
from
a
judicial
council
or
from
the
Judicial
Conference.”
Newman
has
no
plans
to
stop.
Let’s
hope
that
the
U.S.
Court
of
Appeals
for
the
Federal
Circuit
changes
their
opinion
before
she
rings
in
her
centennial;
I
doubt
she’s
going
anywhere
soon.
98-YearOld
US
Appeals
Judge
Loses
Bid
To
Revive
Lawsuit
Over
Her
Suspension
Earlier:
U.S.
Appeals
Court
Renews
Judge
Pauline
Newman’s
Suspension
Pauline
Newman
Speaks:
ATL
Interviews
The
Judge
Who’s
Fighting
To
Do
Her
Job
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.