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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.