High Court rejects request for review of pledge case.The U.S Supreme Court in late August refused to reconsider its decision in the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance, in full, Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, oath that proclaims loyalty to the United States. and its national symbol. case. In a ruling handed down in early summer, the high court dismissed on technical grounds a church-state challenge to the use of "under God" in public school Pledge recitations. California physician Michael Newdow Michael Arthur Newdow (born June 24 1953 in New York City) is a Sacramento, California attorney and emergency medicine physician. He is best known for his efforts to bar public schools in the United States from reciting the current version of the Pledge of Allegiance because of its brought the lawsuit on behalf of his daughter, a public school student. But Newdow has only partial custody of the girl, and the court was able to sidestep side·step v. side·stepped, side·step·ping, side·steps v.intr. 1. To step aside: sidestepped to make way for the runner. 2. the constitutional issue by finding that Newdow did not have standing to sue. Shortly after the ruling, Newdow filed a petition asking the justices to review their decision in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow Newdow v. United States Congress, Elk Grove Unified School District, et al. 542 U.S. 1 (2004) was a lawsuit originally filed in 2000 which led to a 2002 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance . He argued that the high court should not have invalidated his challenge based on his custody situation. On Aug. 23, the court rejected without comment Newdow's petition for rehearing rehearing n. conducting a hearing again based on the motion of one of the parties to a lawsuit, petition or criminal prosecution, usually by the court or agency which originally heard the matter. , the Religion News Service reported. Because the high court did not rule on the constitutionality of requiring public school students to recite the Pledge, other parents with full custody of their children could bring a similar suit. |
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