Federal judge who banned female prosecutor from his courtroom won’t face discipline after giving up cases

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Federal decide who banned feminine prosecutor from his courtroom will not face self-discipline after giving up circumstances

By Debra Cassens Weiss

July 10, 2024, 9:18 am CDT

A federal decide who banned a feminine prosecutor from his courtroom and made alleged “disparaging remarks” about feminine attorneys gained’t face self-discipline for his actions.

No motion might be taken on an ethics grievance in opposition to U.S. District Choose Lynn Hughes of the Southern District of Texas as a result of he has taken senior inactive standing and relinquished his circumstances, in response to a June 12 order by the judicial council of the fifth U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals at New Orleans.

The order didn’t identify Hughes, however the doc references incidents involving the decide. Chief fifth Circuit Choose Priscilla Richman signed the order, made public on the courtroom’s web site final week.

Reuters and Bloomberg Legislation lined the order.

U.S. District Choose Lynn Hughes of the Southern District of Texas in Houston. (Picture by the U.S. authorities, PD US Courts, through Wikimedia Commons)

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

Hughes had commented after dismissing a fraud case in opposition to the proprietor of an adoption company due to alleged prosecution errors that included withholding a doc file till the eve of trial.

“It was lot less complicated once you guys wore darkish fits, white shirts and navy ties,” Hughes mentioned. “We didn’t let women do it within the outdated days.”

Hughes beforehand informed the Houston Chronicle that the comment was about poorly dressed FBI brokers, not attorneys.

The footnote mentioned the remarks, made within the presence of a feminine prosecutor, had been “demeaning, inappropriate and beneath the dignity of a federal decide.”

Hughes later completely banned the feminine prosecutor from his courtroom, a choice lifted by the fifth Circuit in July 2022.

Richman mentioned she agreed with fifth Circuit opinions discovering that the decide’s conduct was improper, however there was no must act given his senior inactive standing.

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