Former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, known for her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Kentucky, has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $260,104 in attorney fees and expenses. This amount is in addition to the $100,000 in damages a jury previously determined she owes to a couple who sued her. The total sum Davis is required to pay now exceeds $360,000.
U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning ruled against Davis’s attorneys’ argument that the fees were excessive, stating that the payment was justified since the plaintiffs prevailed in their lawsuit. This ruling, reported by the Lexington Herald-Leader, is expected to be appealed by Davis’s legal team.
Davis’s case gained international notoriety in 2015 when she was jailed for her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, citing her religious beliefs that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. She was released from jail after her staff issued the licenses without her name. Subsequently, Kentucky’s legislature amended the law to remove the names of all county clerks from state marriage licenses.
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