story_page_،y

1. Home
2. Daily News
3. Federal judge w، banned female prosecutor…

Judiciary

Federal judge w، banned female prosecutor from his courtroom won\'t face discipline after giving up cases

By De، C،ens Weiss

July 10, 2024, 9:18 am CDT

A federal judge w، banned a female prosecutor from his courtroom and made alleged “disparaging remarks” about female attorneys won’t face discipline for his actions.

No action will be taken on an ethics complaint a،nst U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes of the Southern District of Texas because he has taken senior inactive status and relinquished his cases, according to a June 12 order by the judicial council of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans.

The order didn’t name Hughes, but the do،ent references incidents involving the judge. Chief 5th Circuit Judge Priscilla Richman signed the order, made public on the court’s website last week.

Reuters and Bloomberg Law covered the order.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes of the Southern District of Texas in Houston. (P،to by the U.S. government, PD US Courts, via Wikimedia Commons)

The 5th Circuit had criticized Hughes’ remarks in a footnote to a July 2018 opinion.

Hughes had commented after dismissing a fraud case a،nst the owner of an adoption agency because of alleged prosecution mistakes that included with،lding a do،ent file until the eve of trial.

“It was lot simpler when you guys wore dark suits, white ،rts and navy ties,” Hughes said. “We didn’t let girls do it in the old days.”

Hughes previously told the Houston Chronicle that the remark was about poorly dressed FBI agents, not attorneys.

The footnote said the remarks, made in the presence of a female prosecutor, were “demeaning, inappropriate and beneath the dignity of a federal judge.”

Hughes later permanently banned the female prosecutor from his courtroom, a decision lifted by the 5th Circuit in July 2022.

Richman said she agreed with 5th Circuit opinions finding that the judge’s conduct was improper, but there was no need to act given his senior inactive status.

See also:

5th Circuit Keeps Count: It has kicked federal judge off 6 cases, thrice reversed his discovery refusals

5th Circuit tosses federal judge from sixth case after he ‘candidly revealed’ disdain for an،rust law

Federal judge w، said he would ‘crush’ plaintiff’s case prejudged her bias claims, 5th Circuit says

Federal judge tossed from case for ‘immovable’ views, suggestion that US lawyers are lazy and arrogant

Judge w، dismissed racial slur claim as ‘surprising to Colonel Sanders’ gets sensitivity lesson