Southwest Denied Further Pause of Religious Training for Lawyers

Southwest Airlines Co. was denied a further stay of a Texas federal judge’s order requiring three of its in-house lawyers to attend religious liberty training for failing to comply with a pro-life employee’s award in her discrimination lawsuit.

The airline will have until Sept. 26 to see that the lawyers get training through the Alliance Defending Freedom, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Thursday. Southwest failed to show why an administrative stay of enforcement of the training and a related requirement was necessary while the airline pursues its appeal with the Fifth Circuit of its ...