5th Circuit Vacates ‘Religious- Liberty Training’ In Bias Case Against Southwest

( May 12, 2025, 8:24 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A contempt order requiring that Southwest Airlines Co. lawyers attend “religious-liberty training” as a sanction in a flight attendant’s case over her firing for online abortion speech was vacated by the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appels in an opinion in which the panel also reversed denial of the airline’s motion for judgment as a matter of law on two of the employee’s religious-belief based claims and affirmed judgment against the airline on the employee’s practice-based Title VII for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 claims....