Southwest Needs New Sanction After Religious Liberty Course Axed

Southwest Airlines Co. is still subject to a district judge’s contempt order even after the Fifth Circuit nixed religious liberty training from a far-right legal group as a sanction, the appeals court clarified Wednesday.

The ruling is the latest round in an anti-abortion flight attendant’s religious discrimination case against Southwest and her former union. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit made clear that although it had shut down the district judge’s order for the airline’s lawyers to attend a training from Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian organization not previously involved in the case, other sanctions are ...