The Right to Same-Sex Marriage May Not Be ‘Settled’ Law After All

The case of a county clerk from Kentucky who refused to sign a marriage license for a same-sex couple in 2015 could make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court

Rowan County Clerk of Courts Kim Davis stands with her attorney Mat Staver (R) and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee in front of the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson, Ky., on Sept. 8, 2015. Ty Wright/Getty Images

A path may be opening up to once again bring the issue of same-sex marriage before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The legal trail began in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Kentucky in the case of Ermold v. Davis, when Judge David Bunning assigned a jury the task of determining the amount of monetary damages a same-sex couple should be awarded because a Rowan County clerk refused, on religious grounds, to sign their marriage license.