Court upholds ruling KY must pay $224K for Kim Davis refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses
Court upholds ruling that Kentucky must pay $224,000 over clerk Kim Davis refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses
The Kentucky court clerk who denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples has cost her state nearly a quarter-million dollars.
A federal appeals court Friday affirmed Kentucky must pay attorney’s fees to four couples who had sued Kim Davis for refusing to issue the licences after marriage equality became law in her state.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a lower-court ruling awarding $224,000 in legal costs to the couples, who had been denied marriage licenses by the former Rowan County, Ky., clerk.
Friday’s ruling, which decided that the Commonwealth of Kentucky is responsible for paying the tab, "brings another form of vindication for the Rowan County couples who continued the good fight long after marriage equality became the law of the land,” Ria Tabacco Mar, senior staff attorney for the ACLU, said in a statement.
Another attorney, William E. Sharp, working with the ACLU of Kentucky, also hailed the ruling.
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