Sanctioned lawyers must take classes from conservative Christian nonprofit, federal judge rules–ABA Journal

BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS

A federal judge in Dallas has ordered three in-house lawyers for Southwest Airlines to attend classes with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal advocacy group, to purge itself of civil contempt for “inverting” the language in a court-ordered message.

U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr of the Northern District of Texas said the lawyers must take religious liberty classes from the conservative Christian nonprofit that has successfully represented a cake bakerand a website designer who did not want to provide services for same-sex weddings.

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