{"id":1558,"date":"2024-06-28T14:47:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T14:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/la-families-file-suit-over-law-requiring-10-commandments-in-classrooms\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T14:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T14:47:45","slug":"la-families-file-suit-over-law-requiring-10-commandments-in-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/la-families-file-suit-over-law-requiring-10-commandments-in-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"La. Families File Suit Over Law Requiring 10 Commandments in Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Attorneys from Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.aclu.org\/live\/uploads\/2024\/06\/3-24-cv-517-Roake-v.-Brumley.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have joined efforts<\/a> with the American Civil Liberties Union and others to file a federal lawsuit this week on behalf of nine multi-faith families in Louisiana in an attempt to\u00a0block a new state law requiring all public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett serving as pro bono counsel,\u00a0attorneys from the\u00a0American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation, are also representing\u00a0the plaintiffs, which includes\u00a0parents of\u00a0Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist, and non-religious backgrounds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys from Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett have joined efforts with the American Civil Liberties Union and others to file a federal lawsuit this week on behalf of nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2214,2213,2211,1004,153,2212,339],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-classrooms","tag-commandments","tag-families","tag-file","tag-law","tag-requiring","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}