Seventy-four-year-old Navy veteran Madelynn Lee Taylor won her legal fight in federal court late Thursday, winning a final judgment and order requiring the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery to allow her remains to be co-mingled with those of her late wife, Jean Mixner, when she dies. The cemetery in Boise initially refused to allow Mixner’s ashes to be interred there as the spouse of a military member, citing Idaho’s then-ban on same-sex marriage. Taylor filed suit in federal court. After courts overturned Idaho’s ban last October, the cemetery agreed to allow Mixner’s remains to be interred. Taylor then asked the state to join her in requesting a final judgment in her case, but the state refused, instead filing a motion to dismiss the case as moot/Betsy Russell, SR. More here.