Federal Appeals Court Allows Most Louisiana School Districts to Follow Ten Commandments Poster Law

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has temporarily narrowed the scope of a ruling that struck down a Louisiana law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, allowing the law to be implemented in the vast majority of the state’s school districts. State attorneys plan to appeal the entirety of deGravelles’s order, which was still left intact for five school districts named in the lawsuit. In a Nov.

12 ruling that sided with the plaintiffs, deGravelles described the law as “overtly religious” and “unconstitutional on its face.” He barred state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley and the state education board from implementing it and directed them to notify all school boards of its unconstitutionality..