( October 22, 2026, 2:34 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a mandate on Oct. 21 of a majority’s judgment and opinion affirming a Texas federal judge’s grant of summary judgment to a faith-based auto repair business that franchises only to Christians in a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a Jewish man who was denied a franchise, rejecting the man’s “novel argument” that “discrimination against Jews is ipso facto racial discrimination” under 42 U.S. Code Section 1981....