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.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
    475·
    11 months ago

    Yeah, sure, she’ll take that out of her -$26,100 net worth and get right on paying that back.

    • Wrench@lemmy.world
      23·
      11 months ago

      I thought she rode the MAGA grifter wave for a while. I’m sure she pissed away all her grift money already, but maybe she actually has some assets left from the hate train.

    • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      You’re not wrong, although I do wish that in situations like these, where the guilty party knew what they were doing was wrong but did it anyway based on their own personal beliefs, that the debts incurred would be as persistent as their beliefs.