Just one month after the United States District Judge Brantley Starr ordered a reinstatement from Southwest Airlines Co. to Charlene Carter, a former employee, Southwest has asked the court for a new trial based on improper jury instructions.
The case involves an employee who claims that she was fired because of her anti-abortion views. After the reinstatement, Southwest has argued that the court did not give proper instructions to the jury and that “a religious accommodation would have impose an undue hardship.” Charlene Carter was fired back in 2017, just after she allegedly sent messages to the president of the union, Transport Workers Union of America Local 556, and voiced her opposition oof the funds being collected for members of the union to attend the Women’s March in Washington DD.C., with Planned Parenthood as one of the sponsors. Carter’s messages continued, calling abortion “murder”, and calling the union president names. Carter didn’t stop there, as she sent videos of aborted fetuses to the president, who later filed a complaint.
