Legal Opinion
Jones v. Perry
District Court, E.D. Kentucky
Decided October 18, 2016No. Civil No. 16-51-GFVTPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, United States District Judge
Bradley Jones and Kathryn Brooke Sauer simply want to get married. Defendant Sue Carole Perry, the Shelby County Clerk, refuses to issue them a marriage license. She insists that Kentucky law prohibits her from doing so unless both Jones and Sauer physically appear at the clerk’s office to apply for a license. Sauer happens to be a prisoner at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women, so she cannot travel to the clerk’s office for this purpose.
Although Perry believes that Kentucky law compels her to prevent Jones and…
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