Judge who ordered fired federal workers to be reinstated now says ruling applies to 19 states and DC
A federal judge who had ordered the Trump administration to reinstate fired federal probationary employees across the country at more than a dozen agencies has narrowed the scope of his ruling so it now applies to workers in the 19 states and the District of Columbia that challenged the mass dismissals…
The word of the day:
#injunction
“There is no way for a Republican, especially a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, to win before him. He is Highly Conflicted, not only in his hatred of me—Massive #Trump Derangement Syndrome!—but also, because of disqualifying family conflicts,” the president said of federal Judge James Boasberg in a post on Truth Social."
#signal
#injunction
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-loses-it-at-judge-james-boasberg-appointed-to-signal-war-chat-lawsuit/
#Trump administration depressed due to #injunction in US courts and US markets.
It's neutral to reverse from here.
#Investing
#premarket
US Dist Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington issued a preliminary #injunction after the women were added as plaintiffs in ongoing litigation over the impact of #Trump’s EO on #transgender women in federal #prisons.
Lamberth ordered the FBP to “immediately transfer” the 2 women – identified in court papers by the pseudonyms Rachel & Ellen Doe – back to women’s facilities & said the agency must continue to provide them w/ hormone therapy treatment for gender *dysphoria*.
Judge Ana C. Reyes issued the preliminary #injunction, barring the #Defense Dept from enacting a new policy that would’ve moved to remove #transgender troops from the ranks. The policy, issued last month, followed a Jan #ExecutiveOrder signed by #Trump that referred to being transgender as a “falsehood” inconsistent w/the “humility & selflessness required of a service member.”
Thanks to everyone in the fediverse who has favorited, boosted, and reached out to me supportively over the injunction and takedown order that I wouldn't comply with (overview: https://infosec.exchange/@PogoWasRight/114110520940142405)
Special thanks to @zackwhittaker for reporting about it all on #TechCrunch:
Here's my post on the court injunction my site got hit with:
HCRG Care's lawyers claimed an injunction issued in a "private" hearing required us to remove two posts. We didn't comply.
HCRG Care was represented by the Pinsent Masons law firm in the UK in this matter. The injunction was issued by the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, Media and Communications List by the Honorable Mr. Justice Soole.
Pinsent Mason's attempt to get my web host to remove my posts also failed.
As always, I feel blessed to have the legal support of Covington and Burling's Kurt Wimmer Pro Media Freedom Initiative, which has represented my site pro bono for the last 16 years.
Read about the letter, the injunction, and why the High Court's over-reaching injunction endangers UK journalists and doesn't serve the public well.
Oh, and I'm not the only one ignoring the injunction. Medusa also got served with the injunction via tox chat, they tell me. And like other injunctions they have received, they are ignoring it. So what has HCRG really accomplished?
#databreach #ransomware #Medusa #transparency #censorship #pressfreedom #injunction #FirstAmendment
@zackwhittaker @campuscodi @lawrenceabrams @iainthomson
@amvinfe @lawfare @freedomofpress
Last Friday I received a letter from a U.K. law firm with an attached injunction. The law firm claimed I must remove two posts about their client.
That is not going to happen. I am not under the jurisdiction of the U.K. or the High Court of Justice. My lawyer informed them of that yesterday.
But DataBreaches.net might disappear tomorrow because the U.K. law firm sent the injunction to my domain registrar who, innocently believing them, informed me they will suspend my site if I don't remove the posts within 24 hours. I have replied to them but have not heard back.
So...
If my site is gone tomorrow, I will let you know where you can read a lot more about the injunction and how the injunction poses a serious risk of censorship in the U.K.
If my site is still online tomorrow, I will still let you know here where you can read about the over-reaching injunction obtained in a private hearing where no one represented journalists whose reporting was being censored.
#censorship #injunction #pressfreedom
#AssociatedPress #RCFP #databreach #ransomware #journalism
@freedomofpress @campuscodi @zackwhittaker @aj_vicens @carlypage @iainthomson @amvinfe @lawfare @lawrenceabrams
U.S. District Judge Jamal N. Whitehead’s granting of a preliminary #injunction effectively requires the admin to restart the #refugee admissions program that #Trump shut down last month as part of a series of actions aimed at *tightening* #immigration controls.
The judge’s order will remain in place while the case is adjudicated. The Trump admin has the right to #appeal his decision within 60 days.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chang on Monday levied a temporary #injunction blocking the #Trump admin’s order from taking effect as the lawsuit proceeds because he said the order could violate #ReligiousFreedom.
“Plaintiffs have provided evidence that the willingness of their congregants to attend worship & participate in ministry services is presently being chilled,” Chang wrote.
A federal judge in Maryland on Friday temporarily blocked key portions of #Trump’s executive orders targeting #diversity, #equity & #inclusion (#DEI) initiatives in the federal #government & #corporate America.
US District Judge Adam B. Abelson granted a preliminary #injunction, blocking portions of #Trump’s orders to cancel federal #contracts concerning DEI & make government contractors certify that they do not engage in DEI practices that violate anti-#discrimination laws.
In response, Judge Ali, a Biden appointee, issued a temporary #injunction saying that the #Trump admin could not freeze #ForeignAid spending that predates Trump’s inauguration, nor could it fire or suspend workers associated w/those spending projects.
The ruling reverses a decision that had thrown into turmoil programs that provide #shelter for millions of people & fight #hunger & #illness around the globe.
A federal judge on Thurs extended for 7 days his temporary restraining order on the #Trump admin’s move to place about 2,100 employees from the #USAID on paid leave, while the judge ponders entering a preliminary #injunction against the move.
2 labor #unions representing USAID employees sued the Trump admin last week, saying the sudden halt to funding not only upended overseas #aid programs but the employees’ personal lives in various countries.
#USpol #SoftPower
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/13/usaid-workers-trump-leave-ruling/
The lawsuit asserts that the plaintiffs remain the lawful inspectors general of their agencies because #Trump’s dismissals broke the #law. It asks for an #injunction requiring the executive branch to allow them to return to work & awarding them back pay.
4 days after Trump returned to office last month, the White House notified as many as 17 inspectors general in tersely worded emails that they were being terminated because of “changing priorities.”
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Thank you! A federal judge blocked U.S. DOGE employees from altering any records of payments at the Treasury Department while she weighs a request by public interest groups for a broader injunction against their activity. Thank you, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s! 
#AltNPS #Information #Coup #Treasury #Courts #Injunction
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lhk6norsz22e
A fed judge indefinitely blocked #Trump’s effort to curb #BirthrightCitizenship for #undocumented immigrants & temporary foreign visitors, a decision that is likely to mean the #ExecutiveOrder will not take effect as planned later this month.
US Dist Judge Deborah L. Boardman issued a preliminary #injunction after a court hearing in MD, in a lawsuit brought by #CivilRights groups aiming at stopping Trump’s order on the grounds that it violates the #citizenship clause of the #14thAmendment.
Federal judge in #Maryland issues #injunction on #Trump’s #BirthrightCitizenship order
US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued the injunction at court hearing on a lawsuit brought by #CivilRights groups arguing that Trump’s order is #unconstitutional.
#immigration #law #14thAmendment #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteNationalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/05/birthright-citizenship-injunction-trump-immigration/
“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades," Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, said. "I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order."
A federal district court judge on Thurs temporarily blocked #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder aimed at limiting #BirthrightCitizenship….
Senior US District Judge John C. Coughenour heard 25 mins of arguments & then issued an order from the bench blocking the policy from taking effect for 14 days. There will be a further briefing on a preliminary #injunction to permanently block the EO while the case proceeds.
#law #immigration #citizenship #14thAmendment
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-defends-birthright-citizenship-order-court-first-rcna188851
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