Remember Kim Davis, the former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples in 2015? Well, a federal judge just ruled that she must pay a total of over $360,000 in punitive damages and legal fees. https://twitter.com/CraryAP/status/1742235301668372868 From the Associated Press:
Former county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling.
That’s in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan County clerk should pay the couple who sued.
Attorneys for Davis had argued that the fees and costs sought by the attorneys were excessive, but U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning disagreed and said Davis must pay since the men prevailed in their lawsuit.
Davis became something of a martyr for the anti-LGBTQ crowd when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal. She broke the law claiming marriage should only be between a man and a woman. https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1742308064836108732
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