( March 27, 2025, 2:49 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 26 denied an emergency motion filed by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and OPM’s acting director seeking a stay of a preliminary injunction directing the reinstatement of more than 16,000 probationary workers from six federal agencies who were fired en masse; the order was filed two days after OPM, the acting director and other federal government parties filed a stay application with the U.S. Supreme Court....