Justin Chuang is a law clerk in the Labor Department and is a member of the Employment Litigation & Counseling Groups.

As we previously reported, on March 3, 2025, the Maryland District Court denied Defendants’ motion to stay the preliminary injunction in National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education v. Trump, preventing the federal government from enforcing several DEI-related clauses in its recent Executive Orders. The court held

Last Updated: 3/5/2025

[This post has been re-published from Proskauer’s “Law in the Workplace” blog: Federal Court Issues Partial Preliminary Injunction Halting Enforcement of DEI-Related EOs | Law and the Workplace.]

On February 21, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued a preliminary injunction pausing