The Supreme Court docket on Monday denied a bid from former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis to enchantment her $100,000 damages go well with and get the justices to revisit the landmark 2015 choice in Obergefell v Hodges.
The court docket didn’t clarify its choice.
The U.S. Supreme Court docket, Nov. 7, 2025, in Washington.
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Davis gained worldwide consideration after she refused to difficulty a wedding license to a homosexual couple on non secular grounds in open defiance of the excessive court docket’s ruling and was subsequently jailed for six days. A jury later awarded the couple $100,000 for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys charges.
In a petition for writ of certiorari filed in August, Davis argued First Modification safety without cost train of faith immunizes her from private legal responsibility for the denial of marriage licenses.
She additionally claimed the court docket’s choice in Obergefell v Hodges — which rooted marriage rights for LGBTQ {couples} within the 14th Modification’s due course of protections — was “authorized fiction.”
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis makes an announcement to the media on the entrance door of the Rowan County Judicial Middle in Morehead, Ky., Sept. 14, 2015.
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Decrease courts had dismissed Davis’ claims and most authorized specialists thought-about her bid a protracted shot.
Davis’ enchantment to the Supreme Court docket comes as conservative opponents of marriage rights for same-sex {couples} pursue a renewed marketing campaign to reverse authorized precedent and permit every state to set its personal coverage.
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