The Trump administration implored a federal court of appeals to allow significant layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to resume as litigation over the authority to conduct such firings continues at the district court level.

On March 27, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 of the agency's employees would be fired and dozens of sub-agencies would be shuttered in service of the Trump administration's so-called "Make America Healthy Again" campaign.

On May 5, a coalition of plaintiffs led by New York state filed a 101-page lawsuit alleging the ensuing paralysis at HHS was "the intended result of the March 27 Directive." On July 1, U.S. District Judge Melissa R. DuBose, a Joe Biden appointee, granted a motion for a preliminary injunction , b

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