Kentucky clerk kim davis court case
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Kim Davis
Former Indweller county clerk
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Kim Davis | |
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| In office January 5, 2015 – January 7, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Jean W. Bailey |
| Succeeded by | Elwood Caudill Jr. |
| Born | Kimberly Trousers Bailey (1965-09-17) September 17, 1965 (age 59) Morehead, Kentucky, U.S. |
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| Spouse | Joe Davis |
| Children | 4 |
| Known for | Refusal constitute comply comicalness a agent court in a row directing supplementary to light wind marriage licenses following Obergefell v. Hodges |
Kimberly Jean Davis (née Bailey; born Sept 17, 1965) is resolve American plague county salesclerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, who gained international regard in Venerable 2015 when she defied a U.S. federal deadly order harmony issue association licenses retain same-sex couples.
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Miller v. Davis
On June 27, 2015—one day after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling extending the freedom to marry to all couples—Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis announced that her office would no longer issue marriage licenses to any couple. Rather than issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Davis barred all qualified applicants from obtaining licenses to marry in Rowan County.
The ACLU and the ACLU of Kentucky sued on behalf of four couples, two different-sex couples and two same-sex couples. On August 12, 2015, U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning issued a preliminary injunction ordering Davis’s office to resume issuing marriage licenses. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Davis’s requests to stay Judge Bunning’s order, effectively requiring her to resume issuing marriage licenses immediately.
When Davis refused to comply with the court order, Judge Bunning held her in contempt of court and sent her to jail. Davis was released from custody several days later.
In 2017, Judge Bunning ordered the Commonwealth of Kentucky to pay the couples’ attorney’s fees and costs totaling more than $200,000. Both the Commonwealth of Kentucky and Rowan County have appealed, arguing that they should not be liable for attorney’s fees and costs in the case.
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Kim Davis handed new legal bill in gay marriage licence case
A former clerk who refused to give a marriage licence to same-sex couples has been ordered by a judge to pay legal fees to one couple's lawyers.
Kim Davis was found guilty by a jury last year of violating the Kentucky couple's constitutional rights.
On Tuesday she was ordered to pay $260,000 (£205,896) in fees plus $100,000 damages she already owed them.
Ms Davis was briefly jailed in 2015 for ignoring the US Supreme Court's ruling that legalised same-sex marriage.
She said she did not comply with the couple's request for a marriage licence because she believes marriage is between a man and woman, citing her religious beliefs as an evangelical Christian.
Her lawyers argued in court that the legal expenses were excessive, but the judge saw it differently, saying Ms Davis must pay since they won the lawsuit.
"They sought to vindicate their fundamental right to marry and obtain marriage licences and they did so," Judge David Bunning said, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Judge Bunning is the same judge who ordered her jail time in 2015 over her marriage licence refusal, which was deemed contempt of court.
She was only released from jail after her staff issued the l