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Trump Nominee Kyle Duncan Has Spent His Whole Career Working to Annihilate Civil Rights Progress

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February 5, 2018

YOU can help stop his nomination from going through!

See Also: Donald Trump, duncan, fair courts, Fair Courts Project, kyle duncan, Resistance, Trump
Lambda Legal Mourns Passing of Jack Zawadski, Husband of Deceased Gay Man Turned Away by Mississippi Funeral Home

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January 31, 2018

Lambda Legal announced it will continue its battle against a Picayune, MS, funeral home on behalf of Jack Zawadski, an 82-year-old widower whose family was forced to scramble to find another funeral home to provide services for his husband, Robert “Bob” Huskey, when the funeral home discriminated against them when told they were a married same-sex couple.
U.S. Senate Confirms Supreme Court “Short-Lister” David Stras to Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

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January 30, 2018

Sharon McGowan, Director of Strategy at Lambda Legal, issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm David Stras to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit:
The Trump Administration Wants to Let Restaurant Owners Pocket Employees’ Tips. Here’s Why Queer People Should Care.

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January 29, 2018

For wait staff earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, a proposed Trump administration regulation would make all of their tips the property of their employer – thus permitting the employer to legally pilfer them. This new regulation would reverse the longstanding practice of the Department of Labor and an Obama-era regulation that tips are property of the employee.

See Also: Employment and Rights in the Workplace
Judicial Nominee and Supreme Court Shortlister David Stras Passed Trump’s Litmus Test - and That Should Scare You

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November 29, 2017

This week, Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras, had a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Like all of Trump’s extreme judicial nominees, Justice Stras presented himself to the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee as being capable of immediately relinquishing his longstanding anti-LGBT animus in order to become an impartial administrator of the law.

See Also: Fair Courts Project
Federal Court Affirms Lesbian Firefighter’s Sex Discrimination Claim Under the Civil Rights Act

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January 26, 2018

The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a $700,000 jury award for Lori Franchina, a lesbian firefighter who experienced extensive unchecked harassment from her co-workers at the Providence Fire Department.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Employment and Rights in the Workplace
Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN Ask Court to Permanently Block Transgender Military Ban

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January 25, 2018

Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN today asked a federal district court to permanently block enforcement of the Trump Administration’s plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Health Care Fairness, Military, Transgender Rights
Defunding Public Sector Unions Will Threaten Workplace Protections

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January 19, 2018

Public sector unions provided among the earliest protections anywhere in the US to LGBT people.

See Also: Anti-LGBT Laws Rulings and Amendments, Employment and Rights in the Workplace, Unions
Total Abdication of Tradition and Process: Senate Judiciary Committee Approves 23 (!) Nominees in "Monster Markup"

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January 18, 2018

Today, Sharon McGowan, Director of Strategy at Lambda Legal, issued a statement in response to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote to approve 23 nominees.

See Also: Fair Courts Project
Trump Administration Invites Health Care Providers to Discriminate Against LGBT Patients with New HHS Rule

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January 18, 2018

Lambda Legal published an analysis of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) new rule, issued earlier in the day, creating a new unit within the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) called the “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division.”

See Also: Religiously Motivated Discrimination

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Trump Nominee Kyle Duncan Has Spent His Whole Career Working to Annihilate Civil Rights Progress

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Lambda Legal Mourns Passing of Jack Zawadski, Husband of Deceased Gay Man Turned Away by Mississippi Funeral Home

screen_shot_2018-01-31_at_12.24.58_pm.png

U.S. Senate Confirms Supreme Court “Short-Lister” David Stras to Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

strasweb_1.jpg

The Trump Administration Wants to Let Restaurant Owners Pocket Employees’ Tips. Here’s Why Queer People Should Care.

neonbrand-258972.jpg

Judicial Nominee and Supreme Court Shortlister David Stras Passed Trump’s Litmus Test - and That Should Scare You

strasweb.jpg

Federal Court Affirms Lesbian Firefighter’s Sex Discrimination Claim Under the Civil Rights Act

scales_rainbow.jpg

Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN Ask Court to Permanently Block Transgender Military Ban

plaintiffs_1.png

Defunding Public Sector Unions Will Threaten Workplace Protections

workers.jpeg

Total Abdication of Tradition and Process: Senate Judiciary Committee Approves 23 (!) Nominees in "Monster Markup"

rachel_grassley.png

Trump Administration Invites Health Care Providers to Discriminate Against LGBT Patients with New HHS Rule

26982187_163701050921339_1834854428_osocial.jpg

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