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Sanctions for Southwest Airlines reversed

DALLAS — Texas federal judge Brantley Starr announced he will not pursue further civil or criminal contempt against Southwest Airlines after the Fifth Circuit overturned a controversial sanctions order requiring three Southwest Airlines attorneys to receive “religious liberty training” from the right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom.

Read the ruling here.

Read our coverage of the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in this suit last year here.

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