Southwest’s One-Cent Settlement Offer Fails to Moot DEI Case

Southwest Airlines Co.'s one cent settlement offer to a conservative organization suing over the airline’s travel award program for Hispanic students was insufficient to make the case moot, a federal court said.

Because the American Alliance for Equal Rights flatly rejected the offer and Southwest continues to deny liability, a live dispute still exists and the court retains jurisdiction over the suit, Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Dec. 6.

The case is one of several filed by AAER, an organization run by conservative activist Edward Blum that has been ...