Kentucky clerk Kim Davis ordered to pay additional $260K to gay couple whose marriage license she denied
NY Post
The former Kentucky clerk who refused to grant a couple a marriage license because they were gay must fork up another $260,000 to the attorneys of the now-husbands nearly 10 years after she denied them their right to matrimony.
Kim Davis must pay the attorney fees and expenses of the couple, David Ermold and David Moore, a federal judge ruled. That’s on top of the $100,000 a federal jury awarded the pair in September over her notorious 2015 refusal.
Davis, a Republican, spent five days in jail over her denial deemed contempt of court and was found guilty of violating the couple’s constitutional rights last year.
She was serving as the Rowan County clerk at the time that the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the country.
Despite the court’s landmark decision, she refused to issue two same-sex couples marriage licenses based on her own religious beliefs. Both couples sued her.
US District Judge David Bunning — the same judge who sentenced her to jail in 2015 — ruled that the ex-clerk must pay Ermold and Moore’s legal fees because they won their lawsuit against her.
