{"id":260259,"date":"2026-04-21T23:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260259\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:29:08","slug":"federal-court-of-appeals-rules-in-favor-of-texas-ten-commandments-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260259\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal court of appeals rules in favor of Texas’ Ten Commandments law"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal appeals court has ruled against a number of Texas families who sought to block school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments<\/a> in public school classrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a split opinion filed Tuesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the state of Texas and reversed a ruling by a federal judge that prohibited some Texas schools from displaying the Ten Commandments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Yes, Plaintiffs have sincere religious disagreements with its content,” Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan wrote for the majority. “But that does not transform the poster into a summons to prayer.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Several families, both from religious and nonreligious backgrounds, brought the lawsuit against a number of Texas school districts, including Plano ISD, in July 2025, and a federal judge in August issued a preliminary injunction<\/a> preventing the school districts named in the case from displaying the Ten Commandments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s opinion reversed that injunction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The districts, represented by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office,\u00a0appealed the decision. Paxton asked the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the case along with a challenge to a similar law in Louisiana and the court\u00a0heard arguments in January<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dallas Morning News\u00a0reached out to a spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, who is representing the families, for a comment. The News also reached out to Paxton’s office seeking a comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two other lawsuits in Texas brought by families have sued dozens of school districts over displays of the Ten Commandments, including a case seeking class action status that would impact all Texas public schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ten Commandments are indisputably a cornerstone of America\u2019s moral and legal heritage,\u201d\u00a0Paxton said in his advisory.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal appeals court has ruled against a number of Texas families who sought to block school districts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,97508,95231,95012,27,29,28,88032,89512,88338,92931,89204,91241,88944,92240,90463],"class_list":{"0":"post-260259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-news-courts","10":"tag-news-education","11":"tag-news-texas","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","16":"tag-tp-texas","17":"tag-tp-collin-county","18":"tag-tp-ed-lab-legislature","19":"tag-tp-education-lab","20":"tag-tp-ken-paxton","21":"tag-tp-plano","22":"tag-tp-religion","23":"tag-tp-texas-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}