PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the recent mass layoffs at the U.S. Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to halt plans to downsize and reorganize the nation’s health workforce.

Mass layoffs and reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stalled out in federal court, as a judge sided with a coalition of 19 state attorneys general against subagencie | States won a partial block of mass layoffs and the HHS reorganization imposed by the Trump administration in a ruling by a federal district judge Tuesday.