DALLAS (AP) - A federal appeals court says two Dallas-area elementary school principals are immune from liability for stopping students from handing out Christian candy cane pens and other on-campus religious expressions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

By a 10-6 vote, the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans agreed that Plano school principals Lynn Swanson and Jackie Bomchill had qualified immunity from being assessed damages for their actions. That reversed lower-court rulings that would subject Swanson and Bomchill, individually, to damages.

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