Southwest Seeks Fast Review, Stay of Religious Training Sanction

Southwest Airlines Co. asked the Fifth Circuit to quickly hear its appeal of a federal judge’s order requiring three of the airline’s in-house lawyers to attend religious liberty training or to pause the training requirement until the court decides the appeal.

The development came after US District Court for the Northern District of Texas Judge Brantley Starr on Aug. 31 denied Southwest’s request to extend a stay of enforcement of the training. Starr imposed the training as a sanction for the airline’s failure to comply with relief awarded to flight attendant Charlene Carter in her religious discrimination lawsuit against Southwest ...