UPDATE:
Lawyers for Southwest Airlines didn’t have to attend religious liberty training Tuesday as a result of a temporary administrative stay granted by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans.
The stay issued Monday gives the 5th Circuit time to consider whether to grant a longer stay of a Dallas judge’s religious training order while the case is on appeal, report Reuters and Law360.
U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr of the Northern District of Texas had ruled in August that three Southwest Airlines lawyers must take the training for “inverting” his order to inform flight attendants that the airline can’t discriminate based on religious practices and beliefs.
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Starr said the training would be provided by the conservative Christian nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom. Alliance Defending Freedom has previously represented a cake baker and a website designerwho did not want to provide services for same-sex weddings. It has also challenged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion medication mifepristone.
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