Southwest Airlines is in the process of appealing a ruling in a Texas federal court that favored a flight attendant who alleged her termination was in violation of the Civil Rights Act. Alongside, the airline is also recommending the Fifth Circuit to void a district court sanction that commands three of its in-house lawyers to undergo “religious-liberty training.”
This appeal comes in the wake of a prior legal altercation involving an attendant’s termination, which was perceived to be a violation of the Civil Rights Act. In the post-ruling fallout, three Southwest in-house lawyers were ordered by the district court to participate in religious-liberty training, a decision Southwest is attempting to turn around in the Fifth Circuit.
For a detailed background of this ongoing legal dispute involving Southwest Airlines, the full report can be accessed via this direct link.