Two disabled federal immigration attorney-advisers won a district court order temporarily blocking a US Justice Department sub-agency from denying them telework reasonable accommodations while their litigation proceeds.

Kimberly Panian and Hoi Yee Baxter secured a preliminary injunction Friday at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in their lawsuit claiming a “no-telework” policy at the department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review is endangering the health of disabled employees. The policy illegally forces them to work in person in order to maintain their livelihoods and health insurance, they said.

Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles, a Biden-appointee, temporarily halted the ...

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