A nearly 5-year-old legal battle over Bible banners could be at an end after an appellate court this week upheld a lower court's ruling allowing Kountze ISD cheerleaders to write Scriptures on football run-throughs. In a 44-page opinion issued Thursday, Ninth Court of Appeals Justice Charles Kreger said the "cheerleaders' speech expressed on the run-through banners is best characterized as the pure private speech of the students.