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Miller v. Davis is a federal lawsuit in the United States regarding the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. After the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide on June 26, 2015, the county clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, Kim Davis, refused to issue marriage licenses to any couple to avoid issuing them to same-sex couples, citing her religious beliefs.
A clerk in her office later issued licenses to gay couples, and the Kentucky legislature ultimately changed the state marriage form so it doesn’t display the name of the county clerk.
Beshear continued in district court as to the state marriage license issue, while the out-of-state recognition issue was appealed. [ 21 ] On July 1, 2014, U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II found in favor of the intervening same-sex couple plaintiffs and ruled that Kentucky's ban on allowing same-sex marriage in-state violates the Equal ...
The county clerk from Kentucky who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to gay couples said the licenses being granted by her staff are invalid. The county clerk from Kentucky who went ...
Where allowed, such an endorsement gives the document the same weight as an affidavit, per 28 U.S.C. § 1746 [2] The document is called a sworn declaration or sworn statement instead of an affidavit, and the maker is called a "declarant" rather than an "affiant", but other than this difference in terminology, the two are treated identically by ...
Kentucky's new governor ordered county clerks' names removed from state marriage license forms at the center of a controversy involving Kim Davis.
Common-law marriage, also known as sui juris marriage, informal marriage, marriage by habit and repute, or marriage in fact is a form of irregular marriage that survives only in seven U.S. states and the District of Columbia along with some provisions of military law; plus two other states that recognize domestic common law marriage after the fact for limited purposes.
A former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples a decade ago is appealing a ruling ordering her to pay thousands in attorney fees.. The appeal filed by ...