Former county clerk had disputed lawyers’ fees for Kentucky couple who won $100,000 damages

Kim Davis, the former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge’s ruling.

That is in addition to $100,000 in damages a jury said the former Rowan county clerk should pay the couple who sued.

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Davis drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal despite the US supreme court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. She based her refusal on her belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    112·
    10 months ago

    It’s almost like the “justice” system was organized like that on purpose because a lot of the people who helped write the constitution didn’t want the aristocracy to go anywhere, or to have to face consequences, so they wrote a shitty constitution that still generally protected everyone in a position of power from ever having to answer to “a fucking plebeian.”

    Gee, I wonder why the justice system is boiled down to “Whoever has the most money can just fucking wait out the other guy to win.”

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      71·
      10 months ago

      Too much of our judicial system globally is based on Roman law. Our concept of private property is derived from their excuse for maintaining slavery.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 months ago

      Yeah the People’s History is entertaining but might want to move on to real history at some point, but hey I get the urge. I enjoyed the movie Braveheart which is much more accurate.

      • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
        1·
        10 months ago

        And yours comes off as being smug about having read it, in spite of not having understood key aspects of it.