( March 6, 2026, 2:03 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government defendants in a lawsuit by unions, groups and local governments challenging an executive order (EO) and memorandum implementing the EO that resulted in widespread layoffs of federal workers filed a 49-page Microsoft Excel document on March 5 in a federal court in California in response to an expedited discovery order issued two days earlier regarding “the individual(s) involved in the decisions regarding the renewal of” Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cadre of on-call response/recovery (CORE) employees....