After all of the previous court cases regarding the pledge, the most important question is presented in court.
In 1943 the first installment of the most important case regarding the pledge was brought to court. It was brought up again multiple times following this and led to the more well-known case regarding the Florida teenager. He had argued with a teacher that he would not pay respect to the flag, an "inanimate piece of cloth that doesn't move and surely can't hold a gun." The Supreme court refused to hear the case for no reason. It became an issue regarding the law in Florida which required that kids in kindergarten to twelfth grade recite the pledge every school day in the mornings. The question developed into one that asked if the law defied the First Amendment. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida took up the case and they ultimately came to the decision that you do not need to say the pledge as long as it is balanced against your parents' beliefs and the government's interests in education.