Former Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis violated two couples' constitutional rights by refusing to give them marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal in 2015, a federal judge ruled Friday.
as county clerk in 2018, argued the federal court can't impose certain civil liability on her because it would violate her constitutional right to the free exercise of religion.
The couples in this litigation are seeking compensatory and punitive damages as well as legal fees that gradually mounted during this years-long court battle. Bunning's ruling said the plaintiffs' testimony "at the very least creates a genuine issue of material fact as to whether they are entitled to damages." For example, Ermold said every time he thinks of his marriage, "I have to think about Kim Davis and the experience, how we were humiliated and treated like less than human beings.
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