AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - A Texas federal judge on Wednesday blocked from taking full effect a new state law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

The ruling only applies to the nearly a dozen Texas school districts named in the lawsuit, though attorneys who brought forth the lawsuit expressed hope in court that other districts would not implement a law that a federal judge has now found unconstitutional.

Oral arguments in the case, Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District , concluded on Monday, several weeks after 16 parents of various religious backgrounds, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and other religious freedom organizations, sued the state over what their lawyers called “catastrophical

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