Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

An Arkansas Federal District Court recently ruled unconstitutional an Arkansas statute requiring public schools to "prominently display" a 16-by-20-inch poster of the ...

A Texas federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked from taking full effect a new state law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. The ruling ...

The Collier County Commission voted 4-1 to display the Ten Commandments alongside other historical documents in county buildings. The decision followed a heated debate, with opponents citing ...

I homeschooled my four kids for six years before I enrolled them in Texas public schools so I could work full time. What I gained in time, money (and sanity) I lost in control and oversight. I could ...

The state law had said public schools would have to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous” location in every classroom in Texas by Sept. 1. By Pooja Salhotra A federal judge in Texas ...

DALLAS — When it became clear to Texas high school theater teacher Gigi Cervantes that she couldn’t ignore a new state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in her Fort Worth classroom, she ...

HOT SPRINGS -- After a federal judge on Oct. 24 added Lakeside School District to a lawsuit blocking schools from displaying the Ten Commandments in their classrooms and libraries, Lakeside ...