Updated, Jan. 8, 2013:

A federal judge ruled Tuesday in favor of Northside Independent School District, granting school officials the ability to transfer a 15-year-old student because she refused to wear a student identification badge with radio frequency identification technology as part of a pilot program.

Andrea Hernandez and her father, who were represented by the Virginia-based Rutherford Institute, objected to the technology on religious grounds, saying they represented the "mark of the beast" mentioned in the Bible. The district, in turn, offered that she could wear an ID badge without the technology, but Hernandez argued that doing so would ...

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