A federal appeals court will hear arguments Aug. 24 in a battle about a 2022 Florida law that placed restrictions on how race-related issues can be addressed in workplace training.
A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in Atlanta on part of a law that Gov. Ron DeSantis dubbed the “Stop Wrongs To Our Kids and Employees Act,” or Stop WOKE Act, according to an order issued Friday.
The state appealed after Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker last year issued a preliminary injunction against part of the law that affects businesses.
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That part listed eight race-related concepts and said a required workplace-training program or other activity that “espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individual (an employee) to believe any of the following concepts constitutes discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin.”
Walker ruled that the law violates First Amendment rights.
Meanwhile, another dispute is pending at the appeals court after Walker issued an injunction against part of the law that restricted the way race-related concepts can be taught at state universities.
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