AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that cheerleaders pursuing a lawsuit against their former school for prohibiting them from using Bible verses on signs at sporting events can move forward.

The decision comes after a lower court ruled the lawsuit was moot because school officials lifted the ban, but the Texas Supreme Court sided with students, who argued nothing is preventing the district from imposing the ban again if the case is dismissed, The Texas Tribune reports.

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“The District no longer prohibits the cheerleaders from displaying religious signs or messages on banners at school-sponsored events,” Justice John Devine noted in the opinion. “But that change hardly makes ‘absolutely clear’ that the District will not reverse itself after this litigation in concluded.”

The lawsuit stems from an edict by the Kountze Independent School District in 2012 that prohibited cheerleaders from using religious messages in school banners, specifically the banner football players run through at the beginning of each game, according to the news site.

The ban was instigated by the Freedom From Religion Foundation – a Wisconsin based group that threatens schools with litigation as a means of eradicating all religion from schools – which sent a threat to the district alleging the signs were unconstitutional.

But parents of the cheerleaders disagreed, and filed a lawsuit claiming the ban violates the students’ right to free speech. The cheerleaders designed the signs themselves, choose the versus themselves, and paid for the materials and supplies themselves, the lawsuit pointed out, according to the Tribune.

The district reversed the ban in 2013, but parents continued with the case nonetheless.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have supported students’ pursuit of religious liberty.

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“Our Constitution has never demanded that students check their religious beliefs at the schoolhouse door,” Abbot said when he was the attorney general in 2013. “Students’ ability to express their religious views adds to the diversity of thought that has made this country so strong.”

Paxton reiterated that position Friday.

“Religious liberty, deemed by our nation’s founders as the ‘First Freedom,’ is the foundation upon which our society has been built,” he said.

Hiram Sasser, deputy chief counsel for the Liberty Institute, the law firm representing the cheerleaders, told Fox News the Supreme Court ruling last week leaves one big question unanswered.

“Are they going to continue to bleed taxpayer money to fight for the right to censor religious speech?” Sasser said.

The lawsuit now heads back to an appeals court that dismissed the case as moot in 2014, according to the news site.

“It’s just great news for me and the other cheerleaders, but also for all students in the U.S.,” student one of the cheerleaders involved in the lawsuit, who is now in college, told Fox News. “It happens much to often that people just give up …”

Sasser said Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, Republican candidate for president, as well as others provided legal support in the case.