September 2, 2026
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has remedied any imminent harm to the plaintiff, the American Federation of Government Employees, by restarting proceedings in a federal worker class case brought by members, thus eliminating the need for a preliminary injunction, wrote Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Wednesday.
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In her order, Kollar-Kotelly allowed the union to conduct limited discovery, citing AFGE’s “substantial body of evidence that tends to support an inference that the lengthy delays in Pippen and other cases did result from a coordinated policy.”
“We’re pleased that we’ll have a chance to look into this further as we think it was an entirely opaque process that occurred here,” said Joseph Sellers, founder and partner at plaintiff’s firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll LLP.
“We were only able to discern some of its dimensions by word-of-mouth accounts and some orders that some brave administrative judges shared with us,” said Sellers, who represents AFGE. “We think the public is entitled, our clients are entitled to know what happened here in order to ensure that this doesn’t recur.”
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