Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow
This text of 540 U.S. 945 (Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of the United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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C. A. 9th Cir. Motions of Pacific Legal Foundation et al. and Rutherford Institute for leave to file briefs as amici curiae granted. Certiorari granted limited to the following questions: “1. Whether respondent has standing to challenge as unconstitutional a public school district policy that requires teachers to lead willing students in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. 2. Whether a public school district policy that requires teachers to lead willing students in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, which includes the words “under God,” violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, as applicable through the Fourteenth Amendment.” The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case on behalf of the United States. Justice Scalia took no part in the -consideration or decision of these motions and this petition.
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