US EditionACLU, Religious Freedom Groups Sue to Block Texas’ Ten Commandments Requirement in 14 More School Districts
The lawsuit challenges Senate Bill 10 for violating the First Amendment by mandating Ten Commandments displays in classrooms across 14 Texas school districts.
- A group of 15 Texas families filed a federal lawsuit in San Antonio last month to stop 14 districts from posting Ten Commandments displays under S.B. 10, which took effect this month.
- Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery ruled S.B. 10 likely violates the First Amendment, blocking 11 districts after a lawsuit by 16 families and civil liberties groups.
- Frisco Independent School District has installed nearly 5,000 Ten Commandments posters across 77 campuses, purchasing the displays for approximately $1,800, while other Texas school districts signaled intent to implement S.B. 10.
- The plaintiffs seek a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to remove existing Ten Commandments displays and bar new ones, while the American Civil Liberties Union argues these displays harm students' religious freedom.
- With national civil liberties groups involved, the case carries broader stakes as families are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Freedom From Religion Foundation, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP .
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More Texas school districts sued over display of Ten Commandments in classrooms
A federal judge in August issued a temporary injunction blocking 11 school districts from implementing Senate Bill 10, the new Texas law requiring public schools to display the commandments. Fourteen additional school districts, including Conroe ISD, have now been sued by the same coalition of civil rights groups.
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Daily RepublicNorth Texas families sue to block Ten Commandments law, take down displays
In the latest legal battle over the new law, a group of Texas families filed a federal lawsuit Monday to bar 14 districts from displaying the Ten Commandments...
FFRF helps Texas families file new suit to stop districts from displaying 10 Commandments
Photo by Laura Rivera on Unsplash A group of 15 nonreligious and multifaith Texas families filed a new lawsuit with the assistance of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in federal court today to stop their public school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms pursuant to Texas law Senate Bill 10.The new complaint comes in response to school districts that have or are about to display Ten Commandments posters,despite a fede…
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