U.S. District Judge Susan Illston barred the Republican administration from carrying out much of its plans to reorganize and ...

A federal judge in California on Friday temporarily blocked the U.S. State Department from implementing an agency-wide ...

The Trump administration has argued that the State Department is bloated and layoffs are necessary. The court found that’s ...

The Trump administration has sought special dispensation to imminently cut staff at State, but employees won a—potentially ...

A federal judge has temporarily halted the U.S. State Departments plan to lay off nearly 2,000 employees as part of a ...

The decision means that, for now, the Trump administration cannot proceed with plans to shed tens of thousands of federal ...

In her order, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the president may not initiate large-scale executive branch ...

American Federation of Government Employees, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer had asked the justices to put an earlier order by Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Illston on hold last month. But ...

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston during a hearing in San Francisco agreed with a group of unions, nonprofits and municipalities that layoffs that began last month are likely illegal. The judge on ...

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco during a virtual meeting in a lawsuit by unions, nonprofits and municipalities said she was concerned that the State Department is flouting her ...

In her ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston found that Trump’s administration needs congressional approval to make sizable reductions to the federal workforce. The administration ...