U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered federal agencies rehire probationary employees who were terminated, citing that it was “unlawful."

A federal judge ruled Thursday that mass firings of federal workers still in their probationary period at six agencies couldn’t proceed.In issuing a preliminary injunction, Judge William Alsup in Northern California district court required the administration to reinstate workers already dismissed at the Agriculture,

Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement, a judge in San Francisco has ruled, because they were terminated unlawfully.

A civil service law requires an administrative agency to hear complaints. Judges have thrown out lawsuits from unions, saying the courts lack power to block layoffs.

A federal judge repeatedly sounded skeptical on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s mass firings of probationary federal workers were made by the government because the employees couldn’t do their jobs,

A federal judge on Thursday ordered multiple government agencies, including Veterans Affairs, Treasury and the USDA, to offer fired probationary federal workers their jobs back. Why it matters: The ruling is the latest blow for the White House in the courts.