5th Circuit Grants Airline Stay Of ‘Religious-Liberty Training’ Pending Appeal

(June 12, 2024, 2:06 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — An order that Southwest Airlines Co. lawyers attend “religious-liberty training” as a sanction in a flight attendant’s case over her firing for online speech “likely exceeded the district court’s civil contempt authority,” a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, granting Southwest’s motion for a stay pending appeal....