U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes of the Southern District of Texas. Courtesy photo.
A federal appeals court had stern words for a Texas federal judge who issued a lifetime ban to a female litigator who previously accused him of sexism in the courtroom.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit revoked that ban issued by U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes of the Southern District of Texas, known as an exclusion order, but it was a concurrence from circuit Judge James Ho that drew attention from the legal community on social media.
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