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Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis asks Supreme Court to reverse same-sex marriage decision 

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25.07.2025

Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to revisit its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide and celebrated its 10th anniversary in June.

Davis’s attorneys at the Christian nonprofit Liberty Counsel asked the court in a 90-page filing to review a March ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a lower court’s finding that Davis violated David Ermold and David Moore’s constitutional right to marry when she denied them a marriage license in 2015, shortly after the Supreme Court issued its Obergefell decision.

A federal jury awarded the couple $100,000 in damages in 2023, and a federal judge ordered Davis last year to pay Ermold and Moore an additional $260,000 in........

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