Judges rule against mass firings and Tricare bills couple over $100K: Morning Rundown
Judges reverse Trump's federal mass firings. Keith Kellogg absent from Ukraine-Russia talks. Over $100,000 in denied medical bills. Supercharging gut health.
Court rulings open the door for thousands of fired federal workers to be reinstated. A U.S. official is noticeably absent from talks with Russia and Ukraine. And a couple is hit with over $100,000 in medical bills for services that their health insurance provider approved years ago.
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Dozens of agencies, departments and leaderships across the federal government that had terminated workers as part of their reduction-in-workforce efforts must temporarily reinstate those workers, a judge ruled yesterday.
U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Maryland wrote in his ruling, affecting thousands for former employees, that the government “gave no advance notice” when it conducted mass layoffs, which Bredar said is required. “There were no individualized assessments of employees. They were all just fired. Collectively,” Bredar wrote.
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