Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - A lawsuit was filed over the installation of two religious statues at a public building in Quincy. The two large statues are of Catholic saints, with one stepping on a devil’s ...

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

QUINCY ‒ Two religious statues slated to adorn Quincy's new public safety building are "a very straightforward violation of our state constitution," according to an attorney for the Massachusetts ...

Quincy, Massachusetts is facing a lawsuit over Mayor Koch's plan to install statues of Catholic patron saints at the new public safety headquarters. Residents argue the statues violate the state ...

A Boston-area mayor is fighting a group of residents over his decision to commission two statues of Catholic saints for the facade of a new city building — at an estimated cost of $850,000. Critics ...

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 ...

Whether repainting murals for coal town churches or statues in the sanctuary where President Biden worships, Judy Dotzel has hopes for her art. “For me, it’s more of using art as an inspiration to ...

QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - A judge granted an injuction Tuesday that blocks the installation of two large statues of Catholic saints outside the entrance of the city’s new public safety building. In May, ...

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 ...

More than a dozen Quincy, Massachusetts, residents joined a lawsuit alleging that the city was violating religious neutrality as outlined in the state constitution. The Becket Fund, which successfully ...