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A Federal Court Vacated the Army Dining Waiver. Here's Why It Matters to Your Case.
Federal employees have a real stake in a court ruling about blind vendors and Army dining halls, even though almost none of them will ever run a cafeteria. The reason has nothing t...
VOA Reinstatement Signals Limits on Agency Shutdowns
A federal judge’s decision to reinstate more than 1,000 Voice of America employees is more than a headline. It is a sharp reminder that federal agencies cannot dismantle core opera...
Boston Judge Halts RFK Jr. Vaccine Overhaul
On March 16, 2026, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued a 45-page order blocking key parts of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent vaccine-policy overhaul. ...
Schedule Policy/Career Lawsuit: The Three Comments Problem
Federal employees following the controversy around Schedule Policy/Career already understand the stakes. The rule allows agencies to reclassify certain career positions into a new ...
Lawsuit Challenges Schedule Policy/Career Rule
A coalition of major labor and watchdog organizations—including AFGE, AFSCME, the AFL-CIO, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility—recently strengthened their legal c...
Court Filings Seek Full Injunction to Halt Shutdown RIFs
Federal employees, the plaintiffs in the shutdown-RIF lawsuit are now asking the court to extend its temporary restraining order (TRO) into a Preliminary Injunction—a longer-term s...
Probationary Federal Employees Challenge OSC in Court
Five former federal employees filed suit yesterday against the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), alleging the agency abandoned its duty to protect them from prohibited personne...
Footnote 10: What SCOTUS’s Injunction Ruling Means for Federal RIFs
Today, while training to better serve federal employees, I received powerful news: our team secured a unanimous six-figure jury verdict for a client in federal court. From starting...
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