( May 8, 2025, 8:50 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In pair of orders, one by a federal judge in the District of Columbia and one by a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority, issued in a case over the termination of more than 1,400 workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the appellate panel modified an earlier partial stay of a preliminary injunction in the case that effectively reinstated the ban on the reduction in force, and the trial court judge then denied as moot a motion to enforce the preliminary injunction sought by a workers union and other groups....