If this is true, and she does not attend a public school, then -- as I doubted on another thread -- Dr. Newdow indeed lied to the court. This statement appears early in the Ninth Circuit's opinion: Newdow does not allege that his daughter's teacher or school district requires his daughter to participate in reciting the Pledge. Rather, he claims that his daughter is injured when she is compelled to "watch and listen as her state-employed teacher in her state-run school leads her classmates in a ritual proclaiming that there is a God, and that our's [sic] is 'one nation under God.'"