Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis asks Supreme Court to reverse same-sex marriage decision [View all]
Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to revisit its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide and celebrated its 10th anniversary in June.
Daviss attorneys at the Christian nonprofit Liberty Counsel asked the court in a 90-page filing to review a March ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a lower courts finding that Davis violated David Ermold and David Moores constitutional right to marry when she denied them a marriage license in 2015, shortly after the Supreme Court issued its Obergefell decision.
A federal jury awarded the couple $100,000 in damages in 2023, and a federal judge ordered Davis last year to pay Ermold and Moore an additional $260,000 in attorneys fees.
Davis argued in 2015 that granting the couple a marriage license would have violated her religious beliefs as a born-again Christian and Gods definition of marriage. She and her legal team have argued throughout a decadelong legal battle that, in denying the license, Davis was protected by her First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and religion.
In March, a three-judge panel for the 6th Circuit ruled that Davis cannot raise a First Amendment defense in the case because she is being held liable for state action, which the First Amendment does not protect.
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