Judge Refuses To Reconsider Excluding Union Members From COVID-Grant Ruling

( March 30, 2026, 11:19 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Concluding that a labor union had failed to identify either clear error or manifest injustice in his ruling that excepted union members in Alaska and Jackson County, Ohio, from a grant of a preliminary injunction to block the mass termination of grants provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a District of Columbia federal judge denied the union’s motion for partial reconsideration....