The order from U.S. District Judge James Bredar came in a lawsuit filed by 19 states and the District of Columbia against multiple federal agencies alleging the mass firings are illegal.

The judge's decision means that, for the time being, those employees who lost their jobs due to the presidential administration’s cuts were to be reinstated.

A federal district court judge issued a temporary court order to stop the Trump administration from firing probationary federal employees and even required all previously affected to return to work.

U.S. District Judge James Bredar's order applies to 12 departments and several agencies that fired probationary workers during the Trump administration.

Two federal judges have ordered the Trump Administration to bring back probationary workers who were fired from at least six government agencies – about 30,000 employees.

A second federal judge ruled Thursday that thousands of probationary employees laid off en masse by the Trump administration must be temporarily reinstated to their jobs.

The decision on probationary workers comes as the Trump administration faces another lawsuit over an effort to slash the Education Department’s workforce.

A Minnesota man and thousands of other fired federal workers should get their job back because of a new federal court order, but the fired workers say it's not clear if the Trump administration is going to follow those orders.

The Trump administration appears to be preparing to comply with multiple court orders to quickly place tens of thousands of federal workers fired during their probationary periods, according to officials at three agencies briefed on the plans.

A US judge has ordered six government agencies to reinstate fired probationary employees, questioning the authority of the Office of Personnel Management. The ruling deals a legal blow to Trump's cost-cutting measures,