 Patent Law Weblog By Kevin E. Noonan -- Inexorable, inevitable, and regrettable are three words that come to mind with publication from the Report from Special Committee of the Federal Circuit (composed of Chief Judge Moore and Judges Prost and Taranto) containing, inter alia, their recommendation that suspension of Judge Pauline Newman be extended for yet another year. The basis for the sanction remains the same: that Judge Newman's continued refusal to submit to the Special Committee's appointed physicians is judicial misconduct. The Report is 95 pages in length and sets forth those spurned physicians' justifications for arguing that their examination (and not...
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