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DENVER, June 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. appeals court panel in Denver ruled unanimously Monday a Ten Commandments display at an Oklahoma courthouse is unconstitutional.
Ruling in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma and a private citizen, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the primary effect of the monument in Stigler is endorsement of a religion, the Tulsa (Okla.) World reported.
"We hold that the (Haskell County commissioners') actions in authorizing and maintaining the monument … had the impermissible principal or primary effect of endorsing religion in violation of the Establishment Clause" of the Constitution, the judges concluded.
Haskell County officials had no immediate reaction to the ruling, the newspaper said.
Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry signed legislation May 18 to locate a privately funded Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol, near several other monuments.
Henry had no comment Monday on the court ruling, the newspaper said.
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