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Federal judge permanently blocks part of Florida's Stop WOKE Act, pushed by Gov. DeSantis
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2024/07/26/federal-judge-permanently-blocks-part-of-floridas-stop-woke-act/74562216007/A federal judge Friday permanently blocked restrictions that Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers placed on addressing race-related issues in workplace training — part of a controversial 2022 law that DeSantis dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act.”
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee issued a two-page order granting a permanent injunction against the workplace-training part of the law.
The move came after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this year upheld a preliminary injunction that Walker issued in 2022. Walker and the appeals court said the restrictions violated First Amendment rights.
The workplace-training part of the law listed eight race-related concepts and said that a required 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.”
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee issued a two-page order granting a permanent injunction against the workplace-training part of the law.
The move came after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this year upheld a preliminary injunction that Walker issued in 2022. Walker and the appeals court said the restrictions violated First Amendment rights.
The workplace-training part of the law listed eight race-related concepts and said that a required 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.”