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Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, 542 U.S. 1 (2004), was a case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. [1] The lawsuit, originally filed as Newdow v. United States Congress, Elk Grove Unified School District, et al. in 2000, 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 are an endorsement of ...
Case opinion. Per curiam. Lindke v. Freed, 601 U.S. 187 (2024), and O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, 601 U.S. 205 (2024), were a pair of United States Supreme Court cases regarding the First Amendment. Both cases were filed by individuals who were blocked from a public official's personal social media account where the official sometimes spoke ...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts: District of Alaska. District of Arizona. Central District of California. Eastern District of California.
The school board petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit's decision. On December 1, 2006, the Court accepted the case. [19] Oral arguments were heard on the morning of March 19, 2007. [20] Kenneth Starr first spoke on behalf of the petitioning school principal.
The Indiana Appellate Court was created by the Indiana General Assembly by statute in 1891. It was originally created to be a temporary appellate court to handle overflow cases from the Indiana Supreme Court. The Appellate Court was not intended to be a permanent institution; the original statute specified that it would only exist for six years ...
Democratic. Education. Montana State University (BA) University of Montana (JD) Sidney Runyan Thomas (born August 14, 1953) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1996. He served as the Ninth Circuit's chief judge from 2014 to 2021.
The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. They hear appeals of cases from the United States district courts and some U.S. administrative agencies, and their decisions can be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. The courts of appeals are divided into 13 ...
Bear Valley Bible Institute (BTh) Harvard University (JD) Lawrence James Christopher VanDyke (born December 12, 1972) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a former solicitor general of Nevada and Montana.