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5 Sep 2015, 12:09 am
My previous post about the sending of Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis to a federal jail attracted a new commenter to this site. [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 9:11 am by Michael Lumer
(See here and here)  Luckily for her, the court clerks agreed to issue her these divorces regardless of His views on the subject.So there you have it: Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky who ran for office and then took an oath to uphold the laws of the land and the Constitution of the United States, is sitting in jail because she categorically refuses to obey a lawful order of a United States District Judge that she do her job as directed, but… [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 9:11 am by Michael Lumer
(See here and here)  Luckily for her, the court clerks agreed to issue her these divorces regardless of His views on the subject.So there you have it: Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky who ran for office and then took an oath to uphold the laws of the land and the Constitution of the United States, is sitting in jail because she categorically refuses to obey a lawful order of a United States District Judge that she do her job as directed, but… [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 7:01 am by Lovechilde
"And just to be clear, Davis isn't being jailed for her religious beliefs that marriage is only between a man and a woman, as her lawyers have argued. [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 6:05 am by Joe Patrice
[National Law Journal] * With Kim Davis jailed, her deputies waste no time assuring the public that they will be issuing same-sex marriage licenses. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 7:49 pm
Davis’s office began issuing marriage licenses: At the courthouse on Friday, Mr. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 6:49 pm by Lyle Denniston
 The judge said that, because Davis’s supporters would simply cover those fines for her, jailing was the only option to assure that she would obey his order. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 4:48 pm by Howard Friedman
Bunning said he would not hold the younger Davis in contempt since the rest of his colleagues are willing to obey the law.So on Friday, the Rowan County clerk's office is set to open without its clerk, for the first time recognizing the Supreme Court's landmark gay marriage decision....Later in the day, after Bunning established that five of Davis' deputy clerks were willing to issue marriage licenses, Davis' lawyers asked the judge to… [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 3:50 pm by Walter Olson
Kim Davis purges the contempt if she either carries out her public duties or quits her public office. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 2:26 pm
They can interpret the Fourth Amendment broadly because they know no criminal will get out of jail. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 2:09 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Davis lost and sits in jail, but her case may yet prove a harbinger of litigation to come. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 1:45 pm
Davis is upholding Kentucky law as written by its legislature, and as her oath of office requires. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 11:07 am by Michelle N. Meyer
I'd begun a blog post about claims (see Mark Joseph Stern in Slate and Howard Wasserman at Prawfs) that the cause lawyers representing Rowan County, KY County Clerk Kim Davis acted unethically by "advis[ing] her," according to Stern, to disobey a court order preliminarily enjoining her practice of allowing her office to issue no marriage licenses to either same-sex or opposite-sex couples, thereby putting her at (considerable) risk of contempt (that show cause… [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 1:27 pm by Howard Wasserman
The ACLU today moved to hold Kim Davis in contempt for refusing to allow her office to issue marriage licenses, asking for "financial penalties" seemingly tied to the compensation she continues to receive from the state despite not performing her functions. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 1:14 pm by Lyle Denniston
  They did not ask that she be jailed. [read post]
9 Jul 2015, 12:58 pm by CJLF Staff
  Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, who has been with the agency since January, will serve as interim commissioner. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 7:31 am by Amy Howe
Hendrickson, a divided Court held that a pretrial detainee bringing an excessive force claim must show only that jail officers’ use of force was objective unreasonable. [read post]
22 Jun 2015, 12:30 pm by Mark Walsh
He makes fairly quick work of a case about a county jail prisoner who alleges he was roughed up in an altercation with jail officers. [read post]