News & Analysis as of

Preliminary Injunctions Department of Labor (DOL) Federal Contractors

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Federal Court Declines to Block DEI Executive Orders, Rejecting Due Process and First Amendment Arguments

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

On May 2, 2025, a federal district court in Washington, DC declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking provisions of recent Executive Orders (EO 14151, EO 14168, and EO 14173) which are focused on unlawful DEI...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Update: Making Sense of the Evolving DEI Landscape and its Effects on Federal Contractors and Grantees

We recently wrote about the preliminary injunction entered by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing certain provisions of Executive Orders 14173 and...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Federal Judge Blocks Key DEI Executive Order Provisions

On April 14, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) from enforcing a certification provision and termination clause...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

District Court Blocks Department of Labor Enforcement of Contractor DEI Certification Requirement

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on

On April 14, U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly ruled, in relevant part, that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) cannot require federal grant recipients to certify that their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

Federal Court Puts Brakes on Trump-Era DEI Ban for Contractors: What California Employers Need to Know

CDF Labor Law LLP on

Federal courts continue to navigate the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) landscape including Executive Orders targeting DEI. In a recent development last week, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly granted a...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Court Permanently Blocks DOL from Enforcing DEI Certification Provisions

Ballard Spahr LLP on

In our previous post, we discussed the nationwide temporary restraining order issued by the United States District Court for the North District of Illinois that temporarily prevented the Department of Labor from requiring...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Trump’s DEI Executive Orders Hit Another Judicial Roadblock

Fenwick & West LLP on

On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a motion for preliminary injunction barring the U.S. Department of Labor from enforcing the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Federal District Court Temporarily Blocks DOL from Requiring DEI Certification Provisions

Ballard Spahr LLP on

On March 27, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the Department of Labor (DOL) from requiring federal contractors and...more

Blank Rome LLP

Attention Department of Labor Contractors and Grantees: A Federal Court Hits Pause on Executive Orders Related to Diversity,...

Blank Rome LLP on

Federal courts continue to grapple with challenges to President Trump’s executive orders (“EOs”) related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), particularly EO 14151, Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

U.S. District Court Judge Temporarily Blocks Department of Labor from Enforcing Certain Provisions of DEI-Related Executive Orders

On March 27, 2025, Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing certain provisions of Executive...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Illinois District Court Blocks Portions of Anti-DEI Executive Order

Paul Hastings LLP on

There are several concurrent challenges to President Donald Trump’s “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” executive order (Anti-DEI EO). Previously, the U.S. District Court for the District of...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Northern District of Illinois Becomes Latest Court to Block President Trump’s DEI Executive Orders

As we have reported, President Trump’s Executive Orders 14151 and 14173 targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) programs (the “DEI Orders”) have resulted in considerable legal activity addressing the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Chicago Federal District Court Issues Targeted Order Enjoining Department of Labor from Presenting DEI Certifications to Federal...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

On March 27, 2025, a federal district court in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the Department of Labor from implementing key provisions from two of President Trump’s Executive Orders issued in...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Orders Limiting DEI in Government and Business

Fox Rothschild LLP on

Key parts of President Donald Trump’s executive orders (EOs) seeking to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the public and private sector were enjoined nationwide on Feb. 21 by a federal district court...more

Carlton Fields

Portions of DEI Executive Orders Blocked by Federal Judge

Carlton Fields on

President Trump’s executive orders have spurred a slew of litigation, including a lawsuit challenging two orders that focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices in the federal government and federally funded...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Uncertainty for Federal Contractors: Circuits Split as Fifth Circuit Upholds Minimum Wage Mandate

Jackson Lewis P.C. on

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a Texas federal court’s decision that invalidated President Joe Biden’s executive order increasing the hourly minimum wage for employees of federal contractors. The...more

Snell & Wilmer

Lawsuit Threatens DEI-Related Executive Orders

Snell & Wilmer on

As outlined in a recently published Legal Alert, shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump enacted two Executive Orders designed to detect and eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs related to...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Court halts OFCCP enforcement proceedings against contractor

The future of DOL’s administrative law judges is now murky. When the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program believes that a contractor has violated affirmative action obligations, its tried-and-true practice for...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Ninth Circuit Says Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Is Unlawful

Holland & Knight LLP on

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the president lacks authority under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to set a federal contractor minimum wage, creating a split with other...more

Benesch

Texas Decision Calls Into Question the Use of Administrative Law Judges

Benesch on

On October 30, 2024, a Texas federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) from using its in-house administrative law judges to oversee administrative proceedings against a...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Tenth Circuit Upholds Court’s Refusal to Enjoin Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Hike

Jackson Lewis P.C. on

President Joe Biden likely has authority under the Procurement Act to raise the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors to $15 per hour, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled. Bradford v. U.S. Dep’t...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Updates to Task Force Guidance | District Courts Follow Different Reasoning to Hold Executive Order 14042 Invalid: Circuit Courts...

The fast and furious Jenga game over when and with which federal vaccine mandate a company must comply might finally have reached a turning point. On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court issued dual per curiam opinions in...more

Epstein Becker & Green

#WorkforceWednesday: Employee Privacy and COVID-19, CMS Vaccine Mandate on Hold, Independent Contractor Classification -...

Epstein Becker & Green on

This week, we look at complying with the rules that require employers to keep employee COVID-19 vaccination and testing information confidential. HIPAA, Employee Privacy Protections, and COVID-19 (see video attached) ...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Federal Court Blocks Trump’s Controversial Workplace Diversity Training Order Nationwide

In response to 2020’s continued accounts of brutality and discrimination against Black people, and the corresponding wave of demands for accountability and racial justice, organizations across the country began implementing...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Executive Order Prohibiting “Divisive” Training Is Put On Hold

Preliminary injunction stalls bias training order. A federal judge in California has imposed a nationwide injunction prohibiting enforcement of portions of Executive Order 13950. The court’s Order grants a preliminary...more

56 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 3

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide