Kim Davis, the former county clerk 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 is in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan county clerk should pay the couple who sued.
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Davis drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal despite the US supreme court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. She based her refusal on her belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
In other countries, the losing party almost always pays - the US is somewhat unique in that paying is the exception, not the rule. However, the real crime here is that lawyers charged $260,000 to pursue this case.
For a near decade long court case she’s paying only about $28,800 per year of legal fees, which suggests not that many hours of lawyer’s time being spent on it
Fair point, I didn’t realise it had been going on for so long. That in itself is an issue, though I imagine it’s an issue Kim Davis is responsible for.