Virginia Pledge of Allegiance Lawsuit
On August 10, 2005, The Federal Fourth Circuit Appeal Court published a ruling that a Virginia law requiring public schools to perform a Pledge of Allegiance recitation each school day is constitutional.
Pleadings
Below are the pleadings in this case. The following documents are in pdf format. Documents scanned from paper create large files so expect downloads times of 5 minutes for some documents.
- Pledge Fed Appeals (4th) Formal Opening Brief (1.5M)
- Pledge Fed Appeals (4th) Formal Joint Appendix (includes District Court ruling) (3.3M)
- School Board Formal Reply Brief (1.8M)
- Virginia Formal Reply Brief (.2M)
- US Intervention Brief (2.3M)
- Alabama & 30 States Amici Brief (2.3M)
- Myers Rebuttal Brief (.7M)
- Rule 28(j) Letter (.8M)
- Court Order for Supplemental Briefs (0M)
- Myers Supplemental Brief (0M)
- School Board Supplemental Brief (.4M)
- US Supplemental Brief (.4M)
- VA Supplemental Brief (.4M)
- Myers Supplemental Reply (.1M)
- VA Supplemental Reply (.1M)
- Federal Fourth Circuit Appeals Ruling (.1M)
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