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18 Sep 2015, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
As reported by AL.com, on Wednesday Alabama Probate Judge Nick Williams filed an "Emergency Petition for Declaratory Judgment and/or Protective Order In Light of Jailing of Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis" (full text of petition) and a Memorandum In Support of the motion (full text). [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 2:08 pm
.'s song "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," and Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' use of the song "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor when rallying against the issuance of marriage certificates to same sex couples. [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 10:51 am by jason
New pedestrian safety banners in SoMa (Source: Davi Lang, Twitter)As of yesterday, pedestrian safety banners are now flying in SoMa. [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 8:14 am by Amy Howe
Briefly: In the wake of Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis’s refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Linda Greenhouse contends in her column for The New York Times that, although the Roberts Court “has tilted quite far in the direction of free exercise,” “if history is any guide, a tipping point will come that causes society to push back and recalibrate the balance” – a process that “may have begun” with… [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 5:37 am
Huckabee is complaining about the Supreme Court "redefining marriage" and championing Kim Davis. [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 9:29 am by Nelson Tebbe
Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman, and Nelson TebbeStanley Fish has written a defense of Kim Davis, see hereand here, and it is worth parsing his arguments, because they have become staples of both left and right critiques of the secular state for some time now. [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 5:34 am
Kim Davis suffered another legal setback yesterday when the U.S. [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 5:16 am
Surrounded by Rowan County sheriff’s deputies, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, center, with her son Nathan Davis standing by her side, makes a statement to members of the media at the front door of the Rowan County Judicial Center in Morehead, Ky., on Sept. 14. [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 2:44 am by Howard Friedman
On Monday, Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, after spending 5 days in jail on contempt charges, returned to work still opposed on religious grounds to issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 7:18 pm
"If Kim Davis should enforce law she opposes, what about AGs Brown, Harris and Prop. 8? [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 11:45 am
Davis’s argument for relying on her oath of office as justification for disregarding the law of the land is well grounded in history. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 6:06 am by Staci Zaretsky
[Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * Kim Davis may be back to work at the Rowan County Clerk's Office in Kentucky, but that doesn't mean she's done with her fight to not do her job. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 1:08 am by Ben
Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who was jailed for five days for refusing to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples may now face a copyright lawsuit. [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 12:32 pm by Joe Patrice
The ABA rarely asks the Senate to reject a judge as incompetent, but that's what it did here... [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 10:56 am by Brian Clarke
  The fact that Kim Davis's name and office (Kim Davis in her "official" not personal capacity) appear on the license necessary to enter a civil marriage seems to burden her religious freedom not one iota. [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 9:17 am by Brittany Felder
[JURIST] Kentucky official Kim Davis, held in contempt for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses [JURIST report] said Monday that she will not block her clerks from issuing the licenses. [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 6:31 am by Marty Lederman
Kim Davis has recently filed a couple of briefs in the Sixth Circuit, and she attached the transcript of last week's contempt hearing to one of them. [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 6:18 am
"Kim Davis, back at work, in her official position, casting aspersions on marriages citizens have a right to obtain. [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 5:43 am by John Kang
There, in small-town Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis went to jail earlier this month rather than issue marriage licenses in... [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 5:30 am by Timothy P. Flynn
The First Amendment Defense Act, which has across-the-board Republican support, would, among other things, bar the federal government from taking any discriminatory action against those who oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds.For example, if this bill was enacted, someone like Kim Davis could have used it as a shield in her federal court contempt proceedings when she refused to issue a marriage license to same-sex couples. [read post]