SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man who challenged the reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance in court won a $1 million judgment Thursday against a minister who allegedly libeled him in an article on the Internet.
Michael Newdow said he does not expect to receive any money from the Rev. Austin Miles. . . .
[I]n an Internet posting shortly after the federal appeals court ruling [against the pledge], Miles accused Newdow of perjury, saying he lied about his daughter suffering "emotional damage" and "a sense of being left out" for not reciting the pledge at school.
Miles sought unsuccessfully to have Newdow, an attorney, removed from the California State Bar.
Newdow denied ever making the comments. "I never said that," he said. "I only said she had a right to go to school and not be indoctrinated in religion."
The U.S. Supreme Court currently has Newdow's case under submission. Details about the $1M judgment are here from the AP.