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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Aratani

Federal judge delays posting of Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools

A group of white men and women, with a middle-aged man with dyed brown hair sitting at a table in the middle, focus on a stack of paper.
The Louisiana governor, Jeff Landry, signed a bill in June requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all state K-12 public schools. Photograph: Brad Bowie/AP

A federal judge blocked Louisiana from posting the Ten Commandments in public schools until November after parents from five districts sued the state over the law.

In a brief ruling Friday, district court judge John deGravelles said that the parents and the state agreed that the Ten Commandments will not be posted in any public school classroom before 15 November. The state also agreed to not “promulgate advice, rules or regulations regarding proper implementation of the challenged statute”.

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