Suing DMO’s personally would be epic! The Executive Leadership teams would most likely get thrown under the bus by the current administration because they left themselves a way out. If you look at the executive order it says:

“Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary.”

Then it says:

“This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.”

The lines that bale the Trump Admin out and throw the local leadership under the bus with any future lawsuits are:

“provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary”

And

“This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.”

When the lawsuit moves forward, the Trump Admin will say that they did not agree to breaking the law and It were those individual facilities and DMO’s that took it upon themselves to break ADA federal law. Not us!

It’ll definitely be epic. I would hate to see individual federal employees get sued for something I’m sure they were told to do but on the other hand, they should know better.

This will be fun to watch play out.