From Civil Servant 1 v. Office of Special Counsel , decided yesterday by Chief Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.):

Plaintiffs Civil Servants 1–5 are former federal employees whose jobs were "terminated during their probationary periods as part of the Administration's mass firings in February 2025." They each filed a prohibited personnel practice (PPP) complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, only for the agency to summarily close each of their cases because they were probationary employees. Plaintiffs now bring this lawsuit alleging that OSC unlawfully closed thousands of probationary-employee complaints without considering their individual merits, undermining the workplace protections once afforded to probationary workers and violating the Administrative Procedure Act….

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