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Attorney with Clay Daniel Walton & Adams in Louisville, Kentucky. He represented the plaintiffs and petitioners in the Kentucky marriage equality cases of Bourke v. Beshear and Love v. Beshear, which were consolidated as Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that effectively made marriage equality the law of the land.

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