Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow

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	Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Newdow filed suit in March 2000 against the Elk Grove Unified School District and its superintendent, the United States Congress, the President of the United States, and the State of California, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, in Sacramento.
		Newdow, an atheist, brought the action on behalf of his daughter, who was enrolled in the Elk Grove public schools, as "next friend".
		Newdow had standing as a parent to challenge a practice that interferes with his right to direct the religious education of his daughter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elk_Grove_Unified_School_District_v._Newdow (1304 words)

	Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, Michael, et al. - Medill - On the Docket
		When Newdow’s five-year-old daughter entered the public school system as a kindergarten student in California’s Elk Grove Unified School District, he decided he did not believe she should have to be exposed to the references to God made in the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
		Newdow asked the court to declare the 1954 Act unconstitutional and to demand changes in the Pledge, the California state law and the school district policies with regard to the current Pledge of Allegiance.
		In appealing to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Newdow argued that the district court judges failed to adequately put the Act of 1954 to the traditional tests used when determining a violation of the Establishment clause, especially the three-prong test enunciated in 1971 in Lemon v.
	docket.medill.northwestern.edu /archives/000890.php (2123 words)

	Religious Liberty Archive : Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, Colorado Springs, CO
		Newdow, the atheist father of a public school student, filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that his daughter's school-mandated and teacher-led recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance that included the words "under God" violated the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
		The Ninth Circuit, however, reversed that decision, finding that the father could challenge the public school's practice that interferes with his right to direct the religious education of his daughter and that the "under God" language violated the Establishment Clause.
		For the Chief Justice and Justice O'Connor, the public school policy that requires teachers to lead willing students in reciting the Pledge, which includes the words "under God," does not violate the Establishment Clause.
	www.churchstatelaw.com /commentaries/elkgrovevnewdow.asp (1031 words)

	Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, No. 02-1624 (U.S. June 14, 2004)
		Newdow, the non-custodial parent of an Elk Grove student, objected to his daughter having to listen to the daily recitation of the Pledge by her classmates.
		Newdow has standing to sue in federal court, the Ninth Circuit had ruled that Elk Grove’s policy violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
		Newdow had parental rights a state trial court has denied him and that currently are in dispute at the state appellate court level.
	www.nsba.org /site/doc_cosa.asp?TRACKID=&VID=50&CID=468&DID=34024 (578 words)

	DLaycockPaper.doc
		Public schools have been a battleground over religious instruction since their origins early in the nineteenth century.286 Parents reasonably believe they should be able to send their children to public school without the state taking advantage of the opportunity to teach religious views different from what are taught in the home.
		Public and private schools may or may not differ in their treatment of religion, but they differ fundamentally in their ownership, and there is nothing constitutionally suspect about the state discriminating on the basis of public or private ownership.
		Newdow was a religious-speech case, a direct descendent of the long line of cases on school-sponsored prayer.
	www.utexas.edu /law/news/colloquium/papers/DLaycockPaper.doc (16110 words)

	Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow (2004) [02-1624]
		Michael Newdow's daughter attended public school in the Elk Grove Unified School District in California.
		Elk Grove teachers began school days by leading students in a voluntary recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, including the words "under God" added by a 1954 Congressional act.
		The district court dismissed Newdow's complaint for lack of standing, because he and the mother of his daughter are divorced and he does not have custody.
	www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/case/1682 (281 words)

	CNN.com - Court dismisses Pledge case - Jun 15, 2004
		Newdow sued the Elk Grove Unified School District in Sacramento County, California, which his daughter attended, claiming public recitation by students violated her religious liberty.
		Newdow, who is involved in a custody dispute with the mother of their third-grade daughter, could not speak for the girl, the court ruled.
		The 8-0 ruling by the high court reversed a lower-court decision that teacher-led recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/06/14/scotus.pledge (1072 words)

	Michael Newdow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Newdow is most famous for a lawsuit filed on behalf of his daughter against inclusion of the words "under God" in public schools' recitals of the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
		However, the decision was later overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court on procedural grounds, citing that Newdow did not have custody of his daughter and therefore did not have the right to bring suit on her behalf.
		Newdow has once again filed suit regarding the same issue, but this time on behalf of three unnamed parents and their children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Newdow (388 words)

	SCOTUSBlog
		Newdow: I have the independent right not to have the schools, in effect, tell my daughter that my religious belief system -- the system I am trying to inculcate into her -- is wrong.
		Newdow is an avowed atheist whose daughter attends elementary school in the EGUSD.
		The second question is whether the school policy violates the Establishment Clause because the Pledge includes the words “under God.” In a rare move, the Court has permitted Newdow to argue his own case, despite the fact that he is not a member of the Supreme Court Bar.
	www.goldsteinhowe.com /blog/archive/2004_03_21_SCOTUSblog.cfm (4345 words)

	Elk Grove Unified School District v
		Newdow says that his daughter “is made to feel like an outsider when she refrains from saying it, and she is indoctrinated with the belief that there is a God, and that real Americans believe that there is a God.”
		Newdow argues “the coercion here—with younger, more impressionable children being encouraged by government-employed teachers to actively recite religious dogma more than 2000 times—is vastly greater.” Neutrality = principle in which the ruling must be neutral involving church and state relationships.
		Barnette (1943), the Establishment Clause is violated because “his daughter is compelled to watch and listen as her state-employed teacher in a public school leads the class in a ritual that proclaims to be ‘one nation under God’”.
	egate.mcgehee.k12.la.us /faculty/carolynt/11th2003/courseunits/unit7civilliberties/onourdocket/2004briefs/kathlenesbrief.htm (751 words)

	Parental Rights and the Pledge
		He is the atheist who brought a lawsuit against Congress, the president, the state of California and two school districts on behalf of his young daughter who recites the pledge in public school.
		On June 26, 2002, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco found in favor of Newdow's claim that "Under God" violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which mandates a rigid separation of church and state.
		Newdow, which challenges the constitutionality of the words "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, stirred a furor in late March when it was heard before the Supreme Court.
	www.liberator.net /articles/McElroyWendy/ParentalRights.html (840 words)

	INDCJournal: Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow: The Pledge Debate
		As Newdow expressed in the debate, the idea would hardly be tolerated if the Pledge said "under Allah" or "under Jesus." So essentially America is clinging to the notion that the phrase belongs in this public ritual because most of us "feel" that it belongs, not because it's continued inclusion has any serious legal rationale.
		I watched Newdow debate on C-Span the other day, and I was struck by the consistency and simplicity of his argument.
		This was a practical solution to a very minor problem, and perhaps an example the 90% of the public that supports "under God" might suggest to atheist children, but technically it's unconstitutional.
	www.indcjournal.com /archives/000130.php (470 words)

	Court dismisses Pledge of Allegiance suit - Politics - MSNBC.com
		The court said atheist Michael Newdow could not sue to ban the pledge from his daughter’s school and others because he did not have legal authority to speak for her.
		Newdow claims a judge recently gave him joint custody of the girl, whose name is not part of the legal papers filed with the Supreme Court.
		Newdow had numerous backers at the high court, although they were outnumbered by legal briefs in favor of keeping the wording of the pledge as it is.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5208621?GT1=3584 (1214 words)

	The American Spectator
		Now nine, she attends school in the Elk Grove district south of Sacramento, where teachers lead the Pledge every morning for students who wish to take part.
		Newdow is currently juggling three legal actions to eject God from every corner of the Public Square.
		He wants the appellate court to be ordered to ask the California Supreme Court for a ruling on Newdow's standing to sue -- something the Ninth Circuit should have done to begin with, out of deference to the state judiciary on matters of state law.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=6322 (941 words)

	The Rutherford Institute - Legal Features
		Congress, federal district court Judge Lawrence K. Karlton declared that the court was bound by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in Elk Grove Unified School District v.
		In 2002, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declared the phrase “one nation under God” to be unconstitutional in Elk Grove Unified School District v.
		Joined by two families whose children attend California public schools, Newdow once again filed a lawsuit in federal district court alleging that the schools are violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution by requiring their students to participate in the Pledge.
	www.rutherford.org /articles_db/legal_features.asp?article_id=121 (818 words)

	Boston.com / News / Education / K-12 / Cases left for Supreme Court to hear
		Newdow, 02-1624, is a constitutional challenge to the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance as it is recited in public schools.
		U.S. District Court, 03-475, is the Bush administration's appeal in a case about closed-door sessions to develop a White House energy policy.
		The Supreme Court finishes hearing cases for the 2003-04 term this month and will issue rulings through the end of June.
	www.boston.com /news/education/k_12/articles/2004/04/12/cases_left_for_supreme_court_to_hear?mode=PF (257 words)

	Elk Grove Unified School District v. Michael A. Newdow
		The case arose when Michael A. Newdow, an atheist whose daughter attends a California public school, challenged the school district's daily practice of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance on the ground that the practice violates the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution.
		Newdow did not have "standing" to bring the lawsuit given the nature of his legal relationship to his daughter.
		Newdow and the girl's mother never married, and the California courts have conferred greater rights upon the mother in an ongoing custody battle.
	www.clsnet.org /clrfPages/amicus/newdow.php (351 words)

	SCOTUSBlog
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	www.goldsteinhowe.com /blog/archive/2003_09_07_SCOTUSblog.cfm (1697 words)

	Welcome to the Legal Information Institute
		December 20 - U.S. District Court finds the Dover, PA School District "intelligent design" curriculum to be unconstitutional: "The proper application of both the endorsement and Lemon tests to the facts of this case makes it abundantly clear that the Board’s ID Policy violates the Establishment Clause.
		We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents." Kitzmiller v.
		Simmons, invalidates the death penalty for juvenile offenders: "The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were under the age of 18 when their crimes were committed.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu (1220 words)

	Project 21 Release: Black Activists Support Pledge of Allegiance
		In the case of Elk Grove Unified School District v.
		Newdow, atheist Michael Newdow sued to ban the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in his daughter's school because of the reference to God.
		The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision determined the First Amendment bars such a reference in taxpayer-funded schools because the government is forcing religion on students.
	www.nationalcenter.org /P21PRPledge604.html (498 words)

	Law.com - Scalia Recusal Revives Debate Over Judicial Speech, Ethics
		Newdow continued, "It is highly unlikely that the justice had ever read any of the briefs in the case, and -- although his knowledge base is prodigious -- it is doubtful that Justice Scalia has been fully apprised" of the case's background.
		Newdow, who has been a licensed lawyer in California for only 15 months, called Lubet for advice on the recusal request before it was filed, Lubet says.
		Before Scalia acted, one veteran lawyer who requested anonymity said that Newdow's recusal request was an ill-advised insult to Scalia and the Court that would not have been filed by a lawyer knowledgeable in the ways of the Court.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1066080440869 (2065 words)

	SCOTUSBlog
		Newdow, the case involving the constitutionality of including the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance in public primary and secondary schools.
		Vopper, a case that by total happenstance I argued) because it is a matter of public importance and we weren't involved in acquiring it illegally.
		The Raleigh News has this Associated Press article on a teenage defendant who is trying to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty while the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to put an end to capital punishment for those who committed crimes when under the age of 18.
	www.goldsteinhowe.com /blog/archive/2004_02_08_SCOTUSblog.cfm (1656 words)

	annotation23.doc
		Part 3: Strengths and Weaknesses This amicus brief is a bias source because it only supports Michael Newdow in his case against the Elk Grove Unified School District and the U.S. Congress.
		In support of the assertion, the brief also notes that the parental rights awarded to Newdow by a California court does give him standing, on those grounds, to bring the case to trial.
		The brief evaluated the claims made against Newdow’s rights and the Pledge’s violation of the Establishment Clause, and thus succeeded in their support of Newdow.
	gladstone.uoregon.edu /~kkato1/j202/annotation23.doc (622 words)

	U.S. v. Newdow
		However, they did kill this suit by ruling that Michael Newdow did not have the standing to sue.
		Newdow presses on with his war against God in public life.
		They therefore reversed the ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the pledge remains alive...for now.
	www.contenderministries.org /law/lawpages/09062003newdow.php (98 words)

	FalconRed goes to Law School: Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow
		FalconRed goes to Law School: Elk Grove Unified School District v.
		But you have to jump over several paragraphs of unrelated SCOTUS highlights before coming to this: "The court also said it will consider whether Newdow had the proper legal footing to bring the case.
		It was my understanding that the meat of the appeal will, in fact, rest on if a divorced parent, who at the time was not granted child-custody by the courts, can bring suit in the name of their child.
	falconred.llarian.net /oldarchives/000040.html (362 words)

	2003 Term Opinions of the Court
		In case of discrepancies between the slip opinion and any later official version of the opinion, the later version controls.
		Raymond B. Yates, M. Profit Sharing Plan v.
		Sixth Judicial Dist. Court of Nev., Humboldt Cty.
	www.supremecourtus.gov /opinions/03slipopinion.html (278 words)

	► » THE PLEDGE
		the basis of its holding that the school district's policy did not violate
		against the school districtï¾—relief to which he is entitledï¾—Newdow seeks a
		district court would have exercised its discretionary power to resolve, in
	www.e-news2.com /THE-PLEDGE-8224539.html (2368 words)

	Communication Law in America
		Justice Thomas=s majority opinion had to grapple with the issue of whether the school district had attempted to restrict use of the school building on the basis of categories of speech content, or on the basis of the actual viewpoint of potential speakers.
		A 6-3 majority of the Court held that the Milford, New York school district had violated the Good News Club=s rights to freedom of speech by denying them the chance to use the local elementary school on equal footing with all other community groups.
		In another action related to religious speech in the schools, the Supreme Court refused to review a challenge to a Virginia statute requiring public school students to begin their day with a moment of silence.
	uhaweb.hartford.edu /PSIEGEL/Update_Winter_2005_in_HTML.htm (3900 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, 02-1624
		> ACLU Amicus Brief in Elk Grove Unified School District v.
		Unlike the national motto, however, schoolchildren asked to recite the Pledge are being asked to express their personal belief in the values it embodies.
		The lower court in this case ruled that the inclusion of that phrase violates the Establishment Clause when the Pledge is recited in school.
	www.aclu.org /scotus/2003/21082res20040217021624/21082res20040217.html (282 words)

	Supreme Court Preview: Briefs: March 2004
		Sixth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada et al.
		Cases of Interest to the School Community
		Cigna Healthcare of Texas, Inc. and Cigna Corporation v.
	www.abanet.org /publiced/preview/briefs/march04.html (102 words)

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