ASHLAND, Ky. — Eight years after then-Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis created headlines across the country by refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, the issue is not whether she violated their rights.
She did, U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning made plain in a ruling last year.
The question now is whether she will have to pay four men for the humiliation, mental anguish and emotional distress they say she caused them, and if so how much.
Testimony to decide those questions started Tuesday in federal court in Ashland.
Attorneys for the two couples said Davis should have to compensate them for violating their right to marry.