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3 Sep 2015, 3:50 pm
Tags: contempt, ethics, Kentucky, same-sex marriageA note on Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 3:05 pm
So off to the lockup she goes until her office starts issuing marriage licenses to all who are qualified.For those who may have been hiding under a rock (actually I have had that urge myself), Kim Davis, the County Clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, is facing a judge today on a contempt charge for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 2:09 pm
Kim Davis is the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who refuses to grant marriage licenses in order to avoid appearing to condone same-sex marriage, which she opposes on religious grounds. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 1:45 pm
The clerk elected by the voters of Rowan County, Kentucky, has been sent to jail by a Kentucky federal judge, for refusing to perform an act under Kentucky state law that five majority justices of the United States Supreme Court have ordered that Kentucky must change in order to be in compliance with that Court's ukase.What is wrong with this picture? [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 8:23 pm
(EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS) Many commentators have sought to draw an equivalence between Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’s refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses, in defiance of a federal court order, and the decision of so-called “sanctuary cities” to refuse to enforce federal immigration laws. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 2:47 pm
This lack of understanding is playing out as we speak in Rowan County, Kentucky as the Clerk of Court refuses to comply with a preliminary injunction requiring her to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 6:06 am
Kim Davis, the clerk of Rowan County, Ky., refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because she believes same-sex marriage is immoral. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 4:15 am
As reported by the New York Times, Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis yesterday continued to refuse to allow her office to issue marriage licenses because of her religious objections to same-sex marriage, even though the U.S. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 8:22 pm
Just as marriage equality swept the nation, one state at a time over the past few years, culminating in two landmark SCOTUS decisions making marriage equality a constitutional right, at least one county clerk in Kentucky whose responsibility it is to issue marriage certificates, is refusing to do so despite orders from a federal court.The Rowan County Clerk, Kim Davis, who won the job her mother held for nearly 4-decades by a scant 20-something votes, had this to… [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 6:33 pm
"Kim Davis cites God, crowd jeers gay couple": The Louisville Courier-Journal has a news update that begins, "Defying the Supreme Court, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis said she was acting 'under God's authority' as she continued to deny marriage licenses Tuesday to gay couples, whose lawyers filed a motion to find her in contempt of court. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 2:15 pm
It’s Civics 101, but it appears that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis missed class that day.Last night, the Supreme Court denied Davis’s request for an emergency stay of a court order that requires her to immediately issue marriage licenses to local couples, including same-sex applicants. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 1:14 pm
Bunning told Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis and all six of her deputies to be in court in Ashland for the hearing. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 8:16 am
Kim Davis, the clerk for Rowan county, has declined to extend marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 5:29 pm
The Court’s denial order put into effect an order by a federal trial judge in Ashland, Ky., requiring Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to give up her no-licenses policy. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 6:30 pm
Kim Davis is the elected clerk for Rowan County, in a rural area of northeastern Kentucky centered in the small town of Morehead, whose population is less than 7,000. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 1:49 pm
Today, Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky court clerk who has been refusing to allow her office to issue marriage licenses because of her religious objections to same-sex marriage, filed with the U.S. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 11:29 am
[JURIST] A Kentucky county clerk on Thursday again denied a same-sex couple's request for a marriage license, despite a federal appeals court order. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 10:23 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday ordered [text, PDF] Kimberly Davis, the Rowan County Clerk of Courts [official website] in Kentucky, to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 4:00 am
., Aug. 26, 2015), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant a stay pending appeal of a preliminary injunction (see prior posting) issued against a Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk who has religious objections to issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 4:00 am
Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis is continuing her battle to obtain a religious exemption from the requirement that her office issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. [read post]
