Former special counsel Hampton Dellinger said he was planning to pursue legal action to restore all fired probationary workers back to their posts before a court failed to keep him in his role.

The 1978 federal law that created the Office of Special Counsel protected the job from firing for anything other than "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office," but the Trump ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger may have dropped his lawsuit challenging his removal by President Trump, but that did not stop the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from issuing ...

Special counsel Hampton Dellinger, unaffiliated with the office that investigated Trump, spoke to CBS News after ending his legal battle to remain in his job. “I don’t think we have watchdog ...

In what could amount to a death blow to the Office of Special Counsel, its head, Hampton Dellinger, was removed from his position late Wednesday night, when the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...