Newdow v. Congress

313 F.3d 500 Michael A. NEWDOW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. U.S. CONGRESS; United States of America; George W. Bush, * President of the United States; State of California; Elk Grove Unified School District; David W. Gordon, Superintendent EGUSD; Sacramento City Unified School District; Jim Sweeney, Superintendent SCUSD, Defendants-Appellees. No. 00-16423. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. December 4, 2002. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Edward J. Schwartz, J. Michael A. Newdow, Sacramento, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant. Terence John Cassidy, Porter, Scott, Weiberg & Delehant, Sacramento, CA, Robert M. Loeb, Esq., Washington, DC, Kristin S. Door, Esq., Paul L. Seave, Esq., Frank S. Furtek, Theodore Garelis, Esq., A. Irving Scott, Esq., Porter, Scott, Weiberg and Delehant, Sacramento, CA, for Defendants-Appellees. Before: GOODWIN, REINHARDT and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges. Order by Judge GOODWIN; Concurrence by Judge FERNANDEZ. GOODWIN, Circuit Judge. ORDER 1 After we issued our June 26, 2002 opinion in this case, Sandra Banning, the mother of Michael Newdow's daughter, filed a motion for leave to intervene, in order to,…