Judge Seeks Briefs Over Whether Job Corps Injunction Can Stand

A federal judge wants to know how the US Supreme Court’s ruling limiting the use of nationwide injunctions might impact a freeze on the Trump administration’s shutdown of the Job Corps training program.

Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York gave the Labor Department and several Job Corps contractors until July 11 to file briefs explaining how the high court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA, which barred federal courts from issuing universal injunctions that apply across jurisdictions, applies to the injunction he granted in the case.

The judge issued a nationwide injunction June 25 blocking the Trump administration from shuttering operations at 99 Job Corps centers across the country, finding that the DOL’s move was illegal.

While the DOL hasn’t yet submitted briefs on how the high court’s ruling will apply to the injunction, the Job Corps operators who brought the case say that Casa shouldn’t apply because they have brought an Administrative Procedure Act claim.

The “Casa Court expressly declined to address the ‘distinct question’ whether a Court may set aside unlawful agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), as Your Honor did in this case,” attorneys representing the Job Corps contractors wrote.

The case is: National Job Corps Association v. DOL, S.D.N.Y., No. 25-04641, 6/30/25.