SAN ANTONIO — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered multiple Texas school districts to remove recently installed Ten Commandments displays from their classrooms, marking another major legal setback to a new state law.

The ruling comes as part of a sweeping lawsuit filed Sept. 22 by 15 multifaith and nonreligious families, who argue that Senate Bill 10 , signed by Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this year, violates the First Amendment by forcing religious doctrine onto more than 5.5 million public school students statewide.

U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia issued the preliminary injunction Tuesday, ordering the defendant districts to remove the displays by Dec. 1 and prohibiting them from posting new ones while the case proceeds. In his order, Garcia wrote that “displaying the Ten Command

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