The state of Arkansas is appealing a federal judge's decision to issue a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in public schools and the judge's refusal to dismiss the lawsuit for lack of jurisdiction.

The appeal was filed a day after a San Antonio federal judge blocked a state law that requires the Ten Commandments be displayed in schools.

A judge struck down a law that was set to go into effect on Sept. 1 that would have required schools in Texas to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery said the Republican-led legislation that was signed into law in June by Texas Gov.