This Note examines Newdow v. Rio Linda Union School District and explains why California Education Code Section 52720 and the School District’s policy of reciting the Pledge violate the Establishment Clause. Part I discusses the background facts and procedural history of the case and the three tests that were developed by the United States Supreme Court to analyze Establishment Clause challenges. Part II examines the Ninth Circuit’s application of the three Establishment Clause tests to the facts of this case. Finally, Part III explains why the Coercion Test is the determinative test in the context of government action in public schools and why California Education Code Section 52720 and the School District’s policy fail this test
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[Excerpt] A recurring issue in constitutional law concerns the extent to which the Establishment Cla...
Now pending before the Supreme Court is the most important church-state issue of our time: whether p...
The issue of public funding of religious institutions in education is bound up with the establishmen...
This Note examines Newdow v. Rio Linda Union School District and explains why California Education C...
Supreme Court decisions based on the establishment clause in the U.S. Constitution have often drawn ...
The constitutionality of public school board prayer under the First Amendment Establishment Clause h...
I. Introduction II. The History and Development of the Establishment Clause III. The Facts of Florey...
Interpreting the ten words that make up the Establishment Clause and applying them in the context of...
Symbolically, Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District is a paradigmatic expression of the stru...
On October 14, 2003, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the appeal regarding the California sta...
Through numerous Establishment Clause cases, the Supreme Court has concluded that when public educat...
The Establishment Clause - and particularly the issue of government funding of religious education -...
In 1947, in Everson v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court held for the first time t...
The United States Congress adopted the Pledge of Allegiance into the United States Flag Code in 1942...
Religious activity in public schools has become a major issue in the 1990s as result of the Equal Ac...
[Excerpt] A recurring issue in constitutional law concerns the extent to which the Establishment Cla...
Now pending before the Supreme Court is the most important church-state issue of our time: whether p...
The issue of public funding of religious institutions in education is bound up with the establishmen...