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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:46 PM Mar 2017

Court uses loophole to let Kim Davis avoid paying legal fees for wronged couples

Source: Associated Press

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a county clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015 doesn’t have to pay legal fees for the couples who sued her.

Attorneys for the couples who sued Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis asked the court to award them about $233,000 in legal fees and costs. Davis’ lawyers asked that the request be denied.

A law approved last year removed county clerks’ names and authorizations from state marriage licenses.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins said Monday that because the issue was resolved in the legislature, the plaintiffs weren’t prevailing parties and aren’t entitled to legal fees.

Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/03/court-uses-loophole-let-kim-davis-avoid-paying-legal-fees-wronged-couples

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Court uses loophole to let Kim Davis avoid paying legal fees for wronged couples (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP

America ended on election day when the election was influenced and stolen by Russia Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1

I admit I am confused, she did this before the legislature changed the law so how exactly can she cstanleytech Mar 2017 #2

She is a thief who took pay for a job she refused to do. keithbvadu2 Mar 2017 #3

Not sure I'd describe it as a "loophole" onenote Mar 2017 #4

probably some fucking judge appointed by a repuke gopiscrap Mar 2017 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

1. America ended on election day when the election was influenced and stolen by Russia

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:51 PM

Mar 2017

and racists in the GOP.

All minority groups are in danger for their lives.

White liberals are in danger for their lives.

This is the real deal.

cstanleytech

(26,300 posts)

2. I admit I am confused, she did this before the legislature changed the law so how exactly can she

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:52 PM

Mar 2017

avoid paying the penalty from before they changed it?

keithbvadu2

(36,835 posts)

3. She is a thief who took pay for a job she refused to do.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:35 PM

Mar 2017

She is a thief who took pay for a job she refused to do.

onenote

(42,715 posts)

4. Not sure I'd describe it as a "loophole"

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:45 PM

Mar 2017

Whether a party is a "prevailing party" entitled to an award of attorneys fees and costs is not cut and dried when the case ends at the preliminary injunction stage even though the plaintiffs should relief beyond a preliminary injunction. That was the situation in this case. Its worth appealing the decision, but its not a slam dunk in either direction.

gopiscrap

(23,761 posts)

5. probably some fucking judge appointed by a repuke

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2017, 08:31 PM

Mar 2017

in Cahoots with that piece of shit

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