A federal judge Monday kept in place an order prohibiting mass firings at the Consumer Financial ... D.C., came after a top official at the CFPB who has been the chief operating officer since ...

A federal judge paused the Trump administration’s efforts to lay off nearly 1,500 of the 1,700 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as she considers whether the mass firing ...

Mass layoffs targeting 90% of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff divided judges on a federal appeals panel Friday grappling with whether to overturn a lower court order blocking the firings.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on ... and mission," said the notices sent to CFPB staff. But the union pushed back against the mass firings, saying the CFPB could not have "made a ...

“The record abundantly reveals that Defendants’ true intention is to effectively dismantle the Department without an authorizing statute,” U.S. District Judge Myong Joun wrote, noting “the Department cannot be shut down without Congress’s approval.”

The decision by an appointee of President George W. Bush follows a similar ruling in another challenge from a prominent law firm.