NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana’s plan to make all of the state’s public school classrooms post the Ten Commandments next year remains on hold under an order Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.
The state contends that deGravelles’ order affects only the five school districts that are defendants in a legal challenge.
Jeff Landry signed the bill into law in June, prompting a group of Louisiana public school parents of different faiths to sue.
Murrill, the Republican attorney general, has said she disagreed with deGravelles’ ruling and that the law is constitutional under Supreme Court precedents.
In recent years, similar bills requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms have been proposed in states including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah.
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