Federal judge removed from sex discrimination case after circuit rules he 'stifled' professor's acce
Source: Houston Chronicle
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A judge with a history of belittling women has been yanked from a sex discrimination case by an appellate panel that said he “suffocated” a female plaintiff’s access to fundamental fairness.
The case began going downhill when U.S. District Judge Lynn N. Hughes quipped he would “get credit for closing two cases when I crush you.”
Finding he had prejudged and been “arbitrary and unreasonable,” the 5th U.S. Circuit ruled on Friday that Hughes should be removed from ruling on a psychology professor’s challenges against two universities and another judge must start from scratch. The cases have been re-assigned to Judge Andrew S. Hanen.
A trio of male judges from the conservative circuit ruled that Hughes lumped in the woman’s complaints about her employer with other unrelated cases, he repeatedly failed to give her chance to request documents through the discovery process and he did not allow the professor, Audrey K. Miller, to respond before dismissing her requests on the spot. The judge also made “off-key remarks” about how much Miller complained, and suggested the defense lawyers pursue a dismissal, they said.
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