Newdow v. United States

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• holding that a currency’s slogan did not substantially burden the plaintiff’s free exercise rights
• holding that a currency’s slogan did not substantially burden the plaintiff’s free exercise rights
• acknowledging “obligation to accord great deference to Supreme Court dicta, absent a change in the legal landscape” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• relying on Wooley to find that the inscription statutes do not force the bearer of currency to proclaim any viewpoint and thus do not substantially burden religious exercise
• upholding federal statutes requiring the motto “in God We Trust” to appear on all U.S. currency, reasoning that the motto’s “secular purpose” is a “reference to our religio.us heritage”
• upholding federal statutes requiring the motto “in God We Trust” to appear on all U.S. currency, reasoning that the motto’s “secular purpose” is a “reference to our religious heritage”

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