Vince Chhabria
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Oct 16, 2026
Michelle StanglerHOST
A federal judge has ordered the USDA to halt certain office closures and employee rele- relocations tied to its reorganization, ruling the department likely violated a congressional spending restriction announced here in the last week.
Michelle StanglerHOST
US District Judge Vince Chhabria said Congress restricted the USDA from redirecting funds for the changes we- without authorization.
Michelle StanglerHOST
While the judge found a requirement for Congressional Appropriations C- Committee approval unconstitutional, he ruled the underlying spending restriction remains in effect.
Michelle StanglerHOST
The order covers several USDA agencies, includ- including the Forest Service, Agricultural Research Service, Foreign Agriculture Service, Rural Development, and Farm Production and Conservation.
Hallie ZanderHOST
A coalition of labor unions and conservation groups sued, arguing it would gut the agency and hurt hundreds of staff members.
Hallie ZanderHOST
In a ruling yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria blocked the Agriculture Department's plans.
Hallie ZanderHOST
But he said that decision may not be permanent.
Hallie ZanderHOST
In about two months, Congress can decide whether or not to extend the restrictions.
Sarah IsgurHOST
I'm Sarah Isgur, that's David French, and have we got maybe the most thrilling, sexiest advisory opinions to date on sealing orders.
Sarah IsgurHOST
And we've got guests to talk about it, Northern District of California Judge Vince Chhabria, and Stanford Law Professor Nora Engstrom are here to discuss all things, the difference between protective orders and sealing orders, and are we over-sealing the heck out of civil litigation, and how would we do it in criminal litigation, and why is Judge Chhabria sanctioning everyone that comes into his courtroom from big law? I love it.
Sarah IsgurHOST
David, we also have some cert grants from the Supreme Court to walk through before they get to oral argument later in the year, and a question from a first-year associate at an AM Law 100 law firm.
Sarah IsgurHOST
He's grumpy.
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Sarah IsgurHOST
Well, David, I wanna get to this conversation about, drum roll, sealing.
Sarah IsgurHOST
I don't mean the things that bark in the water and eat fish, but I do mean putting things under seal, the difference between sealing and a protective order, and whether we are just gone wild with all of this sealing nonsense.
Sarah IsgurHOST
So we have brought in two experts: Judge Vince Chhabria, friend of the pod, Northern District of California District Judge extraordinaire, and Stanford Law Professor Nora Engstrom, actual sealing expert.
Sarah IsgurHOST
So without further ado, let's get into the sexiest podcast topic there is out there today.
Jeff NallyHOST
It said USDA had to obtain permission from the Senate and House appropriation committees before doing so.
Jeff NallyHOST
Both the plaintiffs and US District Judge Vince Chhabria agreed.
Jeff NallyHOST
However, the prohibition on reprogramming remains.
Jeff NallyHOST
In his order, Judge Chhabria said the bill's explanatory statement, agency documents and President Trump's budget submission associated with the appropriation statute at issue, quote, "Show that Congress almost certainly did not intend for these funds to be used for office closures or employee relocations at the time it appropriated them." The Council for Agriculture Science and Technology tomorrow to release data suggesting although farmers are downstream from PFAS contamination, they often bear the cost when chemicals are found in soil, crops, water or food.
Natalie OttHOST
A coalition of labor unions and conservation groups sued, arguing it would gut the agency and hurt hundreds of staff members.
Natalie OttHOST
In a ruling on October 14th, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria blocked the Agriculture Department's plans.
Natalie OttHOST
However, he said that decision may not be permanent.
Natalie OttHOST
In about two months, Congress can decide whether to extend the restrictions.
Bill AllredHOST
On Tuesday, a federal judge in California issued a stay for any relocation, closures, or reprogramming of USDA and the agencies under its umbrella.
Bill AllredHOST
"Congress did not contemplate USDA using its appropriated funds to shut down offices or relocate employees," said Judge Vince Chhabria, uh, or Chhabria.
Bill AllredHOST
To the contrary, Congress was actively working to restrict the agency's ability to do this because it's, it's, it, it, it's, it's expensive to do this, and there's no point in it.
Bill AllredHOST
The federal government must now pause relocation of its USDA employees from areas beyond their current work, uh, commutes.
Jeff AllenHOST
Federal judge who stayed USDA's reorganization efforts yesterday in response to a suit brought by federal employee union says USDA probably should conduct an analysis of the reorganization efforts.
Jeff AllenHOST
Plaintiffs have, at a minimum, raised serious questions about whether USDA's actions are arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said in a footnote.
Jeff AllenHOST
Where an agency contemplates forced relocations of thousands of its employees, necessarily resulting in considerable employee attrition, the impact of that attrition on the agency's ability to perform its statutorily mandated function seems likely to be an important consideration.
Jeff AllenHOST
An agency considering office closures and employee relocations like those at issue here at least ought to consider whether the key functions of each affected component will be impacted and to explain why or why not, he said.
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Jeff AllenHOST
That is especially true here, where the rate of employee relocations at any one component may be quite high.
Jeff AllenHOST
At the Food and Nutrition Administration, for example, the relocations appear potentially poised to affect up to or even more than seventy percent of the component's employees.
Jeff AllenHOST
That the word of US District Judge Vince Chhabria in his order staying USDA's reorganization.
Jeff AllenHOST
Well, that's Daybreak for this Wednesday, October fourteenth, brought to you by Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative.
Adam MillerHOST
Summary judgment motions are due August sixth, three weeks after this talk.
Adam MillerHOST
And the dispositive motion hearing is set for November nineteenth, twenty twenty-six before Judge Chhabria in San Francisco.
Adam MillerHOST
Understand what that means.
Adam MillerHOST
The general partnership theory survived a motion to dismiss, a stage where the plaintiff's allegations are assumed true.
Angela DunningGUEST
He said spectacularly so, among the most transformative technology m-many of us will see in our lifetimes.
Angela DunningGUEST
Um, and, and Judge Chhabria found the same in the Kadrey v. Meta case that I, uh, handled with, um, a, a number of, of excellent, um, teammates.
Angela DunningGUEST
Um, but i-in-- both, both looked at, at, you know, individual uses.
Angela DunningGUEST
In, in the case of, uh, Judge Alsup in the Barts v. Anthropic case, he found the use for training highly transformative.
Angela DunningGUEST
Um, so focusing on the, the use for, for training in general, um, both courts found that the use of creative works weighed slightly against fair use and-- but that the third factor, um, was basically neutral or weighed slightly against because although the entire, uh, books were used, um, that was necessary for training.
Angela DunningGUEST
And then on factor four, both courts sort of r-reached the conclusion that factor four weighed for fair use, but they got there in very different ways.
Angela DunningGUEST
Um, Judge Alsup in the Barts case found, uh, as did Judge Chhabria, that there is no right to a licensing market for AI training.
Angela DunningGUEST
The book authors in both cases argued that they were entitled to a license to use their works for training, and the court said no. Um, for a transformative use, like a parody or, or making something new, you have no right to monopolize that market or require a fee.
Jeff AllenHOST
The judge handling the latest lawsuit challenging USDA's reorganization has stayed the agency's efforts until October thirteenth so the parties can work out the terms of an injunction.
Jeff AllenHOST
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said during a hearing Tuesday he has not decided whether to grant the injunction request from federal employee unions.
Jeff AllenHOST
However...
Jeff AllenHOST
He asked the parties to craft an injunction tailored toward protecting union members.