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

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.

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

A Norfolk Superior Court judge is temporarily halting the installation of Catholic statues at one of the city’s public buildings while the case plays out in court. In May, residents sued the city, ...

The ACLU sends a letter to Quincy officials urging them to cancel plans for two religious statues at the new Public Safety Headquarters. The ACLU argues the statues violate the separation of church ...

A Norfolk Superior Court judge heard arguments Friday and will soon rule on whether Quincy can place two large religious statues at the entrance to a new public safety building. The ACLU is ...

A showdown over Catholic statues on a public building in a Massachusetts city represents yet another fight in a national conversation about the separation of church and state. A judge granted a ...

Police in New York City are searching for a person they say stole hundreds of dollars worth of religious statues and other items from a catholic church in Queens earlier this month. According to the ...

A hammer-wielding vandal was arrested for bashing in the faces of statues of Mother Teresa and a Catholic pope outside a Brooklyn church Monday. Randy Maldonado Avila, 30, allegedly took a hammer to ...

DOWNINGTOWN — An act of vandalism struck one of the most popular Catholic places of worship in the Greater Philadelphia Region over the weekend. On Tuesday, Downingtown Police were attempting to ...