Both the ACLU of Massachusetts, which sued to block the statues on behalf of the plaintiffs, and the city and its mayor, Thomas P. Koch, had sought the SJC review.

The Supreme Judicial Court will take up the case of controversial saint statues commissioned by Quincy Mayor Tom Koch for a ...

Quincy has appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court a lower court's decision to temporarily bar installation of statues of ...

Protesters supporting the installation of two saint statues outside Quincy's public safety building rallied ahead of the city ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our ...

BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE. CREWS STILL WORKING TO FINISH A $170 MILLION PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING IN QUINCY. YOU WON’T HEAR TOO MANY COMPLAINTS ABOUT IMPROVING PUBLIC SAFETY HEADQUARTERS, BUT THERE’S A ...

A group of residents at Quincy, Massachusetts, is suing to block the city from installing two statues of Catholic saints outside its new public safety building. The Quincy mayor, Thomas Koch, ...

Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, 16 Quincy residents have sued to stop Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s plan to display a pair of religious statues on a new public safety building. The lawsuit, ...

A Norfolk Superior Court judge granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, temporarily blocking two religious statues from being placed outside of Quincy's new public safety building amid a pending ...