The jury in a Dallas court found that Southwest violated a flight attendant’s right to religious speech. She said she was fired after she called the union president “despicable” for attending the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C.
PUBLISHED 11:35 AM CDT Aug. 08, 2023DALLAS — A judge has sanctioned Southwest Airlines, writing that the airline twisted his words and disregarded his order in the case of a flight attendant who claimed that she was fired for expressing her opposition to abortion.U.S.
Charlene Carter said she was fired after she called the union president “despicable” for attending the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C. The judge ordered Southwest to pay Carter's most recent legal costs, dictated a statement for Southwest to relay to employees, and ordered three Southwest lawyers to complete “religious-liberty training" from a conservative Christian legal-advocacy group
U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr found Southwest in contempt for the way it explained the case to flight attendants last year after losing a jury verdict. In a blistering 29-page order, the judge said the airline acted as if its own policy limiting what employees can say is more important than a federal law protecting religious speech.
On Monday, the judge ordered Southwest to pay the flight attendant's most recent legal costs, dictated a statement for Southwest to relay to employees, and ordered three Southwest lawyers to complete “religious-liberty training" from a conservative Christian legal-advocacy group.
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