A federal judge on Wednesday ruled to temporarily block a new Texas law that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms.

In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery wrote that the state did not attempt to limit the Ten Commandments’ use to relevant course curriculum and said the law crosses the line from exposure to coercion.

The decision comes just days before the law was supposed to take effect on Sept. 1. At the beginning of the summer, more than a dozen families filed a lawsuit against 11 school districts, including Alamo Heights, North East, Northside and Lackland Independent School Districts in the San Antonio area.

The law itself impacts an estimated 5.5 million students, but the ruling only directly applies to those districts listed in the lawsuit. The pl

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