5th Circuit Remands Sanctions, Attorney Fees On Rehearing In Southwest Bias Case

( October 23, 2025, 8:27 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — After completely vacating a contempt order that included a sanction that required Southwest Airlines Co. lawyers to attend “religious-liberty training” in a flight attendant’s case over her firing for online abortion speech, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on rehearing vacated only the portion of the order that imposed sanctions on the airline and remanded the case to the district court to issue new sanctions, along with granting the flight attendant’s motion to remand the award of appellate attorney fees....