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.

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.

  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    10 months ago

    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

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      10 months ago

      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.