On Friday, a federal appeals court affirmed an earlier ruling blocking a Louisiana law mandating that public school classrooms display posters of the Ten Commandments. The decision is the latest development in a series of state-level attempts to mandate religious instruction in public schools.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Louisiana’s law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms is

A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional.