Court orders Sizzler to pay assault victimBy Steve Mosco / June 22, 2012 / News / Queens Restaurants / Forest Hills
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Photo by Joe Anuta/Inset courtesy Lambda Legal
Sizzler in Forest Hills will pay Liza Friedlander (inset) after a court ruled in favor of the transgender woman following a 2010 assault. A Forest Hills Sizzler has been ordered to pay $25,000 to a transgender woman after a court ruled that staff and diners had attacked her because of her sexual orientation during an incident in September 2010.
Liza Friedlander alleged that the restaurant's manager, Edgar Orellana, accused her of not paying for her meal and began verbally abusing her. According the suit filed in Queens civil court, the manager eventually knocked her down with a shove to the chest and began kicking her and yelling anti-gay epithets.
