Appeals panel partially lifts order that let CFPB layoffs inch forward

Source: The Hill

04/28/25 5:16 PM ET


A federal appeals court panel on Monday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), partially lifting a previous order construed as greenlighting the major cuts. The panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit revoked its order allowing the administration to conduct reductions in force of employees if a “particularized assessment” determined their roles were unnecessary for the agency to perform its statutorily required duties.

The Trump administration took that previous order to mean it could move to lay off roughly 90 percent of CFPB’s staff, but a lower judge stepped in before the reduction occurred.

“Given these ongoing disputes, we think it best to restore the interim protection of paragraph (3) of the preliminary injunction, which ensures that plaintiffs can receive meaningful final relief should the defendants not prevail in this appeal, rather than continue collateral litigation over the meaning and reviewability of the ‘particularized assessment’ requirement imposed by this court’s stay order,” the panel wrote in an unsigned order.

Administration officials are set to appear before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson this week, as she considers whether the reduction in force violated her earlier order enjoining the administration from dismantling the agency.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5271727-appeals-court-cfpb-layoffs/

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.41898/gov.uscourts.cadc.41898.01208734554.0.pdf

REFERENCES

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143428504
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143439203


This story has been barely been trickling out. I first saw it on Raw Story here - https://www.rawstory.com/trump-judge-2671858873/

They were apparently quoting a writer from Lawfare who must have posted it on social media (there wasn't anything yet on their website). Finally The Hill picked up something.

They were pretty much about to "do a USAID" to them and the Appeals Court voted 2-1 last week to allow some of that purging to continue but JUST reversed themselves this evening.