U.S. District Judge Fred Biery rules the law, set to take effect Sept. 1, is unconstitutional, and allowed lawsuits opposing it to proceed.

He signed the law a day after the 5th U.S. the Circuit Court of Appeals found a similar law in Louisiana was "plainly unconstitutional," per the Texas Tribune. The court ruled then that requiring schools to post the Ten Commandments would cause an "irreparable deprivation" of First Amendment rights.