‘Ranting, rambling, and paranoid’: Federal appeals court suspends 96-year-old judge until she passes mental exam

U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman (Screengrab via YouTube).

Two weeks after 97-year-old U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman lost a lawsuit against her fellow circuit judges for suspending her from the bench, a committee of judges on the judicial council recommended extending Newman’s suspension for an additional year.

Newman, the oldest judge on the federal bench, was appointed in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan and was the first judge appointed directly to the Federal Circuit. Though hailed as the “heroine of the patent system” by her colleagues, Newman was suspended after she refused to cooperate with an investigation into her mental health.

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