This article reports on the fiery California atheist who lost his bid at the U.S. Supreme Court to get "under God" stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance. Dr. Michael A. Newdow, an emergency-room physician with a law degree who represented himself before the Supreme Court in the high-profile case against the Elk Grove, California, school district vows to continue the fight with new plaintiffs, preferably in cases against school districts all over the country. He had argued, and a federal appeals court had agreed, that the district was unconstitutionally exposing his now-10-year-old daughter to religious dogma during the daily classroom ritual of pledging allegiance to the American flag. In a ruling handed down on Flag Day--50 years to the day after Congress added "under God" to the pledge--a five-justice majority of the court held that Dr. Newdow lacked the legal standing to bring the case, because of complications arising from his bitter custody battle with the girl's mother.