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struggle4progress

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Thu Sep 28, 2023, 07:51 PM Sep 2023

Denied marriage license to same-sex couple in 2015, ordered to pay $100K (two weeks ago)

Updated September 14, 2023 2:35 PM ET
Laurel Wamsley

A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to a same-sex couple who sued a former county clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue them a marriage license, claiming that doing so would violate her religious beliefs.

Kim Davis, the former clerk in Rowan County, Ky., was sued by two same-sex couples to whom she refused to grant marriage licenses. The district court found Davis personally liable in both cases, but only awarded damages in one.

In the case Ermold v. Davis, the jury awarded $50,000 to each of the plaintiffs, David Ermold and David Moore, according to attorneys for Davis. No damages were awarded in the case Yates v. Davis ...

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/14/1199477637/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage-license-ordered-to-pay-damages

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Denied marriage license to same-sex couple in 2015, ordered to pay $100K (two weeks ago) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2023 OP
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