Legal Powerhouses Join Forces to Contest Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Statute
NEW ORLEANS, LA — A legal challenge to Louisiana’s controversial law that mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms has been mounted by a powerful partnership between the civil rights law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and the American Civil Liberties Union. The lawsuit argues that this state mandate infringes upon First Amendment rights by promoting a specific religious view within public education. The legislation, which came into effect earlier this year, requires each public school classroom in the state to display a poster of the Ten Commandments. It was … Read more