Hampton Dellinger also sought to halt the firing of some probationary government employees amid the Trump administration’s workforce cuts.

Hampton Dellinger said he was dropping his case a day after the federal appeals court in Washington sided with the Trump administration in removing him as the head of the Office of Special Counsel.

Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, has been a critical figure scrutinizing the recent mass firings of federal workers.