New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- decade after the Supreme Court's landmark 2015 ruling extending marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices will this fall consider a petition explicitly asking them to overturn the decision.

Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages and $260,000 in attorneys' fees. Her petition argues that the First Amendment's free exercise clause should shield her from personal liability.

More fundamentally, Davis claims the court's decision in Obergefell vs Hodges was "egregiously wrong."

"The mistake must be corrected," wrote Davis' attorney Mathew Staver. He ...