{"id":5007,"date":"2025-07-01T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/judge-says-hhs-layoffs-likely-unlawful-must-be-halted\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:02:21","slug":"judge-says-hhs-layoffs-likely-unlawful-must-be-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/judge-says-hhs-layoffs-likely-unlawful-must-be-halted\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. judge says HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    U.S. judge says HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 A federal judge has ruled that recent mass layoffs at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lawsuit-hhs-kennedy-attorneys-general-health-794d685fdb4e9855bc0840125677c372\">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>\u00a0were likely unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to halt plans to downsize and reorganize the nation\u2019s health workforce.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose granted the preliminary injunction sought by a coalition of attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit filed in early May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/01\/judge-says-hhs-layoffs-likely-unlawful-must-be-halted\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Associated Press<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/01\/judge-says-hhs-layoffs-likely-unlawful-must-be-halted\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. judge says HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 A federal judge has ruled that recent mass layoffs at the\u00a0U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u00a0were likely unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to halt plans to downsize and reorganize the nation\u2019s health workforce. U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2147,2144,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hhs","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}