On Tuesday, a federal judge based in Texas ruled that a state law requiring public independent school districts (ISDs) to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom was likely unconstitutional.

In his order , which was narrowly defined to affect only the districts in question, Judge Orlando Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas noted that the families suing the ISDs “do not wish their children to be pressured to observe, venerate, or adopt the religious doctrine contained” in the Ten Commandments.

Fifteen families across 14 different school districts in Texas filed the lawsuit back in September. The families come from a wide range of religious and non-religious backgrounds , including atheist, agnostic, Christian, Jewish, Baha’i, and Hindu.

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