Federal judge rules former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis must pay an additional fees to a couple to whom she denied a marriage license.
In a decision last week, U.S. District Judge David Bunning, of the Eastern District Court of Kentucky, ruled that former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis should be required to pay $246,026.40 in attorney’s fees and $14,058.30 in legal expenses incurred by the couple, David Ermold and David Moore, in the course of suing Davis.
Davis was previously ordered to pay $100,000 in damages after a jury decided that the men were entitled to $50,000 each for being denied a marriage license by Davis after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned state-level bans on same-sex nuptials across the nation in mid-2015.
Ermold and Moore sued Davis after she declined to issue the couple a marriage license three separate times, and refused to permit her deputies to issue a license bearing her official name or title.
Several couples who were turned away by Davis’s office during the summer of 2015 sued her, arguing that she had violated their constitutional rights.