Another San Antonio-area school district is caught in the crosshairs of Texas’ new law that requires donated posters of the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and a coalition of religious freedom organizations are suing 14 more Texas school districts to block them from implementing a new state law requiring public school classrooms to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Texas from requiring nearly a dozen public school districts across the state to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled to temporarily block a new Texas law that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms.

The court will reconvene Monday over Zoom, but a decision may not come until later this month.

A federal judge in San Antonio will hear arguments Friday on whether to block a new Texas law that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom across the state.

The judges opting to hear the cases together marks a significant development in a saga that many believe will reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

Josephine Perez-Gorda, 40, and the man found in possession of the truck, Franklin Powell, were ordered to be in court Jan. 15 for a show cause hearing, according to an order signed by Judge Fred Biery last week.

A Dripping Springs woman who embellished her Army veteran husband’s wartime injuries to carry out a lengthy fraud scheme must report to federal prison by Wednesday, after a judge denied her motion to extend her surrender date.

A Dripping Springs woman who embellished her Army veteran husband’s wartime injuries to carry out a lengthy fraud scheme was sentenced to nearly four years in prison by a federal judge in San Antonio Thursday.

Almost two years after being found guilty, a former Southside Independent School District teacher has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being discovered with thousands of child pornography images and videos.

A 25-year-old San Antonio man who described himself as a “weedaholic” was found guilty Monday of a federal firearm violation.

SAN ANTONIO – A federal judge in San Antonio on Tuesday sentenced a 35-year-old man to 15 years in prison for supplying heroin for distribution throughout San Antonio, officials said. From May 2018 to March 2019, Sanchez’s drug trafficking organization was responsible for the distribution of heroin on the East Side of San Antonio, federal officials said. AdThe organization members worked shifts in the various roles, including Ramirez’s father and brother, who distributed heroin and cocaine throughout the entire San Antonio area. In November 2019, Biery sentenced Sanchez to 15 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release. To date, 12 individuals associated with the organizations Ramirez supplied have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 41 months to 180 months, federal officials said.

The United States Supreme Court in Washington on June 11. Reynolds Stefani/CNP/ABACA via REUTERSThe U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an initial bid by state Democrats to expand voting by mail to all Texas voters during the coronavirus pandemic. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed Biery's order while Texas appeals his ruling. In order for someone to vote by mail in the July 14 primary runoffs, counties must receive their application for a mail-in ballot by July 2. A favorable decision for Democrats by the Supreme Court by early October could still allow for a massive expansion in voting by mail during the November general election.

Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas TribuneAfter a series of losses in state and federal courts, Texas Democrats are looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to expand voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic. The Texas Democratic Party on Tuesday said it asked the high court to immediately lift the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' block on a sweeping ruling that would allow all Texas voters who are seeking to avoid becoming infecting at in-person polling places to instead vote by mail. The fight to expand who can qualify for a ballot they can fill at home and mail in has been on a trajectory toward the Supreme Court since Texas Democrats, civil rights groups and individual voters first challenged the state's rules months ago when the new coronavirus reached Texas. Under his order, voters under the age of 65 who would ordinarily not qualify for mail-in ballots would now be eligible. In their appeal, the Democrats are asking the Supreme Court to leave in place Biery's order and take up the case on the claim that the state's age restrictions for voting by mail violate the 26th Amendment's protections against voting restrictions that discriminate based on age.

Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas TribuneA three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday extended its order blocking a lower courts sweeping ruling that would have allowed all Texas voters to qualify to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery issued a preliminary injunction in late May expanding mail-in voting, but the appellate panel almost immediately put it on administrative hold while awaiting legal briefings from both sides. Thursday's ruling keeps Biery's ruling on ice while Texas appeals it. In his appeal to the 5th Circuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that Biery's injunction threatened "irreparable injury" to the state "by injecting substantial confusion into the Texas voting process mere days before ballots are distributed and weeks before runoff elections." Siding with Paxton, the 5th Circuit panel in part found that requiring Texas officials to institute voting by mail for all against their will would present significant, irreparable harm on the state.