Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

As disputes rage on over religion’s place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a dozen states have considered proposals that would require classrooms to post the ...

State lawmakers passed a bill requiring public schools and universities to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

An appeals court allowed Louisiana to implement a law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a ...

More legal battles are brewing over Texas’ requirement that schools display posters of the Ten Commandments, as a federal appeals court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality of a state law ...

A lively oral argument filled the en banc courtroom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday afternoon in New Orleans, to address this simple question: may states require the ...

A bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school and university classroom in South ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Galveston ISD Trustee Elizabeth Beeton speaks at a committee meeting on Feb. 6, 2024. Beeton was among several trustees who raised ...

ROGERS, Texas (KWTX) - Community members in Rogers recently came together to donate 140 posters with the Ten Commandments, gifting them to their local school district last week. “That takes care of ...

All three laws have been at least partially blocked – most recently Texas’ law – after federal trial court rulings. But the ongoing cases seem aimed at overturning a 45-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ...