A federal appeals court on Friday blocked Louisiana from enforcing a law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all classrooms of the state's public schools and universities.

Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments in every classroom likely violates the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled.

NEW ORLEANS — A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is ...

FILE - A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway at the Georgia Capitol on June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) NEW ORLEANS (AP) ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is ...

Louisiana's new law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms wrongly gives the state a role in religious instruction.

Friday’s decision from a three-judge panel at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans could tee up yet another major Supreme Court battle over the First Amendment’s firewall between ...