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Appellate - 4th Circuit
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A split Fourth Circuit panel held Monday that a coalition of states doesn't have standing to sue the Trump administration over the mass firing of thousands of probationary government employees, finding that it was the employees — not the states — who "suffered the brunt of the harm" underlying the case.
A Maryland federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration "probably broke the laws that regulate en masse terminations of government employees," ordering the federal government to reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were abruptly fired from their jobs in 19 states and the District of Columbia.
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.
The Fourth Circuit on Friday refused to pause a Maryland federal judge's restraining order requiring the reinstatement of thousands of probationary workers who were fired from 18 federal agencies.
The Trump administration is seeking an emergency halt of a Maryland federal court order that led the Department of Health and Human Services to delay the terminations of almost 3,000 probationary employees, arguing it has burdened HHS and over a dozen other federal agencies behind the mass firings. Here, Law360 Healthcare Authority looks at these and other significant cases and decisions that shaped the healthcare industry over the last week.
The Trump administration on Monday evening asked the Fourth Circuit for an emergency stay of a Maryland federal judge's restraining order requiring the reinstatement of probationary employees who were fired from 18 federal agencies, saying the suing states don't have standing to represent the fired workers.