April 01, 2025
The Trump administration has urged a California federal judge to reject the state of Washington's request to expand an injunction blocking federal agencies from firing probationary employees, saying the bid to broaden the order to other agencies is unnecessary and based on unfounded speculation of harm.
March 31, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice is quickly implementing President Donald Trump's plan to seek huge sums of money from litigants whose cases impede his agenda but ultimately prove unsuccessful, court records show.
March 26, 2025
The Trump administration responded to an injunction compelling it to rehire over 15,000 fired probationary employees by placing them on leave, not bringing them back to work, a coalition of advocates for the workers told a California federal judge Wednesday, saying the administration hasn't complied with the injunction.
March 25, 2025
U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Monday he has jurisdiction to hear claims from public-sector unions over the mass firing of probationary employees within the federal government, flipping from his position last month and splitting from federal courts that have held the claims must be processed through governing labor agencies.
March 18, 2025
The Trump administration Tuesday told Judge William Alsup that fired federal probationary employees are being put on administrative leave as part of the reinstatement process he ordered and not to "skirt" the preliminary injunction, after the judge said Monday putting the workers on leave isn't permissible under his order.
March 17, 2025
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Monday denied President Donald Trump's administration an immediate administrative stay of a California district court order requiring reinstatement of some probationary federal workers fired from six agencies, the majority saying a pause "would disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head."
March 13, 2025
A California federal judge on Thursday ordered the immediate reinstatement of certain probationary employees fired from six federal agencies, saying the Office of Personnel Management did not have the authority to direct those terminations, making the firings "unlawful."
March 10, 2025
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Monday denied the Trump administration's request to vacate an upcoming evidentiary hearing into the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's mass firings of probationary federal employees, and required OPM director Charles Ezell to appear in person or else be deposed.
February 27, 2025
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Thursday temporarily blocked the mass firings of probationary federal employees ordered by President Donald Trump's administration, determining that the Office of Personnel Management illegally directed government agencies to terminate the probationary employees without authority to do so from Congress.
February 25, 2025
Directives from the White House threatening gender-affirming care, medical research funding and employment across federal health agencies met resistance in recent days as courts ruled to halt enforcement and states and labor groups filed for injunctive relief.