That ruling said Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, was entitled to stay at his post. “This order gives effect to the removal of appellee from his position as Special Counsel ...

Washington — Hampton Dellinger, the former head of the office that investigates whistleblower retaliation, has dropped his legal challenge to his firing by President Trump from his role as ...

Hampton Dellinger, who was the head of the Office of Special Counsel until a court ruling Wednesday, said in a statement he would drop his case after facing the “long” odds to be reinstated by ...

A day after a federal appeals court panel allowed Trump to proceed with his plan to remove Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, Dellinger issued a statement saying he is dropping his lawsuit ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with the Trump administration in allowing the immediate removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel while the ...

A judge declared President Donald Trump's firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the ...

Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel that protects federal government workers and whistleblowers from mistreatment, said he decided to stop fighting his ouster after a federal ...

Special counsel Hampton Dellinger faced President Trump head-on and lost, resigning his post on Thursday rather than fighting his firing from the outside. His departure marks a major legal victory ...

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., put on hold on a lower court’s ruling that found Hampton Dellinger’s termination at the Office of Special Counsel was “unlawful.” ...

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the president's authority to oust the head of the independent ...

Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, has been a critical figure scrutinizing the recent mass firings of federal workers. By Eileen Sullivan Reporting from Washington ...