The court refused a call for ajudicial review of a ban by a school district on the placing of the ten commandments on a fence at school baseball field in Downey, California.
Generally, a final ruling by adistrict court can be appealed to the United States court of appeals in the federal judicial circuit in which the district court is located.
"Americans for Prosperity believes that government should be reined in when it overreaches its legal authority, and here, the appeals court played that crucial role, reining in adistrict court decision that was judicial activism at its core, " said spokesman Levi Russell.