May 17, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel majority Friday sounded inclined to lift lower court restrictions on what the Trump administration contends is its lawful push to "radically downsize" the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, potentially clearing the way for mass layoffs of its staff.
May 12, 2025
A union representing employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged the D.C. Circuit to keep in place a lower court injunction barring the agency from stopping work and firing staff, asserting ahead of oral arguments this week that the Trump administration is trying to "place the executive branch above the law."
April 30, 2025
Spring has sprung for appellate arguments over the White House's pruning and shearing of agencies, part of a bountiful circuit calendar in May, when appeals courts will also tend to defamation drama involving a pro golfer, antitrust suits against drugmakers and hotels, and a nine-figure patent verdict against Apple Inc.
April 28, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel said Monday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must refrain for now from mass employee firings, backtracking from a prior decision that the Trump administration had used to attempt a now-suspended layoff of nearly all the agency's staff.
April 23, 2025
The National Treasury Employees Union has hit back at a Trump administration bid to resume mass layoffs of nearly all the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's workforce, urging the D.C. Circuit to leave a federal judge's temporary restraining order in place.
April 21, 2025
The Trump administration has told the D.C. Circuit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau only needs a staff of 200 to fulfill its duties, as the government seeks to resume layoffs at the agency after a federal judge halted the terminations for a second time.
April 17, 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's acting Director Russell Vought moved Thursday to resume mass firings at the agency, prompting a scramble from its employee union to head off a torrent of pink slips terminating the vast majority of the agency's workforce.
April 13, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel has cleared a path for the Trump administration to resume job cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as it pursues an appeal of a preliminary injunction barring it from shutting down the agency.
April 09, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel seemed divided Wednesday on the Trump administration's bid to stave off a lower court order barring it from shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a U.S. Department of Justice attorney disavowed plans to shutter the agency.
April 03, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel on Thursday put a temporary, limited hold on a federal judge's preliminary injunction barring further cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, even as the judge herself largely denied a Trump administration bid to stay it for appeal.