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First Circuit rejects challenge to Pledge of Allegiance

"The question presented is whether the New Hampshire School Patriot Act, which requires that the state's public schools authorize a period during the school day for students to voluntarily participate in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, violates the First or Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued this ruling yesterday. Michael Newdow served as counsel for plaintiffs. The appellate court rejected the plaintiffs' challenge to the constitutionality of that New Hampshire law.

Full post as published by How Appealing on November 13, 2010 (boomark / email).