January 5, 2008
Source: The Dallas Morning News
A Carrollton couple's court challenge to Texas' requirement that schoolchildren observe a minute of silence has failed.
David and Shannon Croft had sued Gov. Rick Perry and the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district, alleging that the law was unconstitutional and amounted to required prayer.
But U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn in Dallas upheld the statute this week.