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Today, Lambda Legal urged the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to hold Glen Saint Andrew Living Community in Niles, Illinois and its administrators, accountable for failing to protect lesbian senior Marsha Wetzel, from the harassment, discrimination and violence she suffered at the hands of other residents because of her sex and sexual orientation.

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. 

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.