Newdow Loses Defamation Action Against Minister

A release from the Thomas More Law Center last week reported that a California state trial court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit that activist Michael Newdow had filed against Reverend Austin Miles. Newdow is best known for his lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance containing the words "under God." Newdow's defamation suit arose out of two website postings by Miles in 2002 accusing Newdow of lying to the courts about the reaction of Newdow's daughter's to reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. (See prior posting.) According to Thomas More Law Center, on Nov. 20 the trial judge found that Newdow was not defamed and was not entitled to damages.