The Fifth Circuit will consider cases from both Texas and Louisiana over whether public schools must display the Ten Commandments.

A full federal appeals court will review Texas and Louisiana laws requiring Ten Commandments displays in schools.

TEXAS, USA — Senate Bill 10 mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in every public-school classroom, but not without a legal fight. Religion has long influenced Texas culture, politics and daily ...

Texas recently became the third state in two years, following Louisiana and Arkansas, to pass a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. Soon after — like the other states ...

The battle continues over Texas' new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms. A new lawsuit has been filed to keep it from happening, and legal experts say ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

The full panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear both the Texas case and a ...

A Texas law requiring the state’s public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments could violate First Amendment rights, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, temporarily blocking Texas schools ...

As Republican-dominated states seek to require displays of the Ten Commandments, critics are noting similarities in the ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

A district judge ruled Wednesday that Texas can’t require posters of the Ten Commandments to go up in certain school districts where parents have challenged the move. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ...

Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s ...