June 20, 2024
Software vendor Workday is battling a suit over its artificial intelligence tools, Tesla is preparing for a sweeping race discrimination trial, lawyers for Southwest Airlines hope to dodge court-mandated religious bias training and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is defending its new pregnant worker rule. Here are four discrimination cases lawyers should keep an eye on in the latter half of 2024.
June 07, 2024
In finding Friday that an order for several in-house Southwest Airlines attorneys to undergo "religious liberty training" should be permanently placed on hold while an appeal of a flight attendant's Title VII trial win is pending, the Fifth Circuit said the district court had likely exceeded "the scope of the court's civil-contempt authority."
June 03, 2024
The Fifth Circuit on Monday seemed torn over whether it should "split hairs" between religious conduct and religious belief as it weighed whether to uphold a Southwest flight attendant's win in a wrongful termination suit over graphic anti-abortion messages she sent her union president.
May 31, 2024
A group of Republican state attorneys general will urge a federal judge Monday to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to block regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, and the Fifth Circuit will hear Southwest Airlines’ push to overturn an anti-abortion former flight attendant's win in her religious bias suit. Here are four June argument sessions discrimination lawyers should have on their radar.
January 30, 2024
Southwest Airlines Co. says it fired a flight attendant for her conduct rather than her beliefs after she sent a co-worker anti-abortion text messages, telling the Fifth Circuit on Monday she won the case because of incorrect jury instructions.
September 26, 2023
A day before the court-ordered deadline for Southwest Airlines' lawyers to undergo "religious liberty" training in a flight attendant's suit, the airline convinced the Fifth Circuit to temporarily pause the sanction while the court considers whether to stay the decision pending Southwest's appeal.