HOUSTON — A federal judge has ordered 14 Texas school districts to remove Ten Commandments displays by December 1 and banned them from posting new displays. The public school districts named include Conroe ISD.

The ongoing legal battle over the Ten Commandments began in June when Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 10 into law, requiring all public schools to display the Ten Commandments and specifying the minimum size required.

The named school districts have until Dec. 1 to comply.

In August, another judge called the law “plainly unconstitutional" and blocked Texas from enforcing it.

The preliminary injunction issued on Tuesday is in response to a lawsuit filed by multifaith and nonreligious families with children attending schools that continued to display the Ten Commandments

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