Louisville to pay $800K in wedding photographer religious‑freedom case
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By Killian Baarlaer
Published on March 24, 2026.
A federal judge has ordered Louisville Metro Government to pay $800,000 in attorney fees for a Christian wedding photographer, Chelsey Nelson, who successfully claimed that a city law violated her First Amendment rights. The Christian nonprofit legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom represented the photographer, who claimed the Fairness Ordinance could force her to photograph same-sex weddings and restrict her views on marriage on her studio’s website. The settlement ends the years-long litigation, but only provides for attorney fees. In October, a judge kept in place a permanent injunction preventing the city from enforcing the law against Nelson and ordered the city to pay Nelson $1 in nominal damages.
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